Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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 pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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 human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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