Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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