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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo be a fool at the right time is also an art.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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