Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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 more you know, the more you see
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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 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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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