Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 2

• 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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  Years, People, Technique

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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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  Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

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• One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

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  Believe, Belief, Brave New World Technology

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1932.

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• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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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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  Inspiring, Education, Procrastination

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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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  Learning, Health, Men

  Collected Essays (1959) "Case of Voluntary Ignorance"

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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 man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

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  Communication, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.47, Random House

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• Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

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  Country, Kings, Truth

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.72, Random House

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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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  Men, Choices, World

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.129, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

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  Positive, Ceilings

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• Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

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  Country, War, Agency

  1956 'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.

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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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  Generations, Next, Mass

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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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  Powerful, Army, Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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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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  Power, Technology, Political

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Liberties are not given, they are taken.

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  Freedom, Taken, Liberty

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• Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

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  People, Choices, Crowds

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• The more you know, the more you see

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  Conversations With God, Logical, Shoreline

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

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  Mean, Technology, Progress

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers

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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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  Art, Mind, Littles

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• An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

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  Equality, Sun, Sun Rise

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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. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

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  Dream, Growing Up, Men

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• The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

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  Goal, Life Is, Life Goal

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• The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

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  Spiritual, Ignorance, Journey

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• As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

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  Fate, Political, Helping

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