Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEvery ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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 have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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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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