The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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