Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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The more you know, the more you see
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEvery ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNo social stability without individual stability.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty, 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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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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople 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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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