Every man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The more you know, the more you see
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Great 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.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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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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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 secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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