Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAt this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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