All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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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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