Aldous Huxley Quotes

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We dont know because we dont want to know.

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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.

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It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling

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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and thats your own self.

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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

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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 - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account mans almost infinite appetite for distractions.

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Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

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The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

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