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 HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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 is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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