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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.

Aldous Huxley

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Always Claim Disillusion Father Rebellious Son
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Bread Circus Dictator Enough Miracle Mysteries never Old Reach Subject
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Advice Each Other Embarrassing Five Forty Give Kinder People Research Study Years
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Belong Claim Cow Dingle Disgraceful Mindedness Person Same Shakespeare Simple Species Very Well
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Agreed Chronic Moralist Most Remorse Sentiment Undesirable
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

How Intoxicate People Really Themselves Work
If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Another Being Either Hang Human Kill Like Really Shown Themselves Vermin
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Always Appeal Consolidate Dictator Patriotism Tyranny
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Between Choice Follow Made Madman Madness Man Reason Unhestaingly Word
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Greater Greta Partial Silence Still Truth View
Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Behave Essentially Good Naturally Sane Try
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Hardly Healthy Human Left Made Medical Progress Such Sze Tremendous
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Country Discover Everyone Other Travel Wrong
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Been Believe Condition Them Thing
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Ability Do Done Education Like Make Thing Valuable Whether Yourself
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Against Believe Deepest Evidence Juman Mind

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