There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWe shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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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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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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