The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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