life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
ALDOUS HUXLEYlife is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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 war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAssembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAt this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
ALDOUS HUXLEYIgnore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhich is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEYChronic 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 HUXLEYThe pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEY