Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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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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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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