The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDon’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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