Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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