Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEYConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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All 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.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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