Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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