Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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