Aldous Huxley Quotes

• People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Technology, Thinking

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Nwo, People

  "The Ultimate Revolution". Aldous Huxley's speech at Berkeley Language Center, www.informationclearinghouse.info. March 20, 1962.

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• The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wall, Believe, Mind

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Medicine, Healthy, Progress

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Mind, Religion

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

  Aldous Huxley

  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 greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, People, Promise

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• The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, Compassion, Tyrants

  1937 The Olive Tree.

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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  Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ignorance, Reality, Ignored

  Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Dark, Self

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7

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• This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Communication, Media

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

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• One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

  Aldous Huxley

  Monday, Life Is

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Birthday, Children, Mean

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• Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Sarcastic, Laughter

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 239), 1979.

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Years, People, Technique

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Dictator, Appeals, Tyranny

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Liberties are not given, they are taken.

  Aldous Huxley

  Freedom, Taken, Liberty

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

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• Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Bullying, Race

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Experience teaches only the teachable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Teaching, Experience

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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  Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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