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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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 deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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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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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The more you know, the more you see
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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