Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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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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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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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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