He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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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 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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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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