To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
-
-
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The more you know, the more you see
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Experience teaches only the teachable.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
ALDOUS HUXLEY