It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
ALDOUS HUXLEYlife is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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.
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