There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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The more you know, the more you see
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