Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The more you know, the more you see
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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