Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
-
-
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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 -
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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 -
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
ALDOUS HUXLEY