Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Thanks 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.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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