Every man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIgnore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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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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