It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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