But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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