If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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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 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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No social stability without individual stability.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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