A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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