A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
ALDOUS HUXLEYI wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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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 man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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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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