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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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