To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMan is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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