Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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