The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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