After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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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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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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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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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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