The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYGreat is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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