Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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 worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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