Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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