After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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