Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEYChronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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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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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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