black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Aldous Huxley

The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Country Fiction Make Much never People Person Reality Sense Trouble
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Make Medical Progress Remarkable Science Soon Such Well Will
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Always Contrary Determine End Justify Mean Nature never Such Universe
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

How Intoxicate People Really Themselves Work
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Agreed Chronic Moralist Most Remorse Sentiment Undesirable
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Certain Improve One Only Orner Own Self Universe
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Cease Exist Face Ignore
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 HUXLEY

Belong Claim Cow Dingle Disgraceful Mindedness Person Same Shakespeare Simple Species Very Well
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Certain Corner Improve One Own Self Universe
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Ability Do Done Education Like Make Thing Valuable Whether Yourself
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Bread Circus Dictator Enough Miracle Mysteries never Old Reach Subject
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Also Art Fool Right Time
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Hardly Healthy Human Left Made Medical Progress Such Sze Tremendous
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Age Carry Child Enthusiasm Genius Lose never Old Secret Spirit
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Arteriosclerosis Before Develop Get Kind Majority Mental People Physical Seem Year Young
Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Children Distinguish Meaningful Meaningless Nowhere Statement Systematic Taught Way

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aldous Huxley Quotes