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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo be a fool at the right time is also an art.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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