Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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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.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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