Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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The more you know, the more you see
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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