After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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But 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.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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