Tag: Aldous Huxley
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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.
Aldous Huxley
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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Aldous Huxley
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
Aldous Huxley
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
Aldous Huxley
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Aldous Huxley
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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
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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.
Aldous Huxley
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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous Huxley