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Aldous Huxley Quotes - Page 2

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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

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.

Real, Struggle, Voice

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.

Communication, Men, Two

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

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.

Art, Mind, Littles

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.

Fear Of Love, Goodness, Casts

Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.51, Ivan R. Dee

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

Believe, Belief, Brave New World Technology

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

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.

Inspiring, Education, Procrastination

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Funny, Bible, Jesus

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Truth, Honesty, Lying

Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

Money, Reading, Men

Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Devils Of Loudun”, p.368, Random House

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.

Power, Technology, Political

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

Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.

Positive, Ceilings

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Medicine, Progress, Medical Science

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Inspirational, Teaching, Experience

Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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

People, Choices, Crowds

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

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.

Fate, Political, Helping

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

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

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.

Dream, Growing Up, Men

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Stupid, Intelligent, Insane

Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.189, Random House

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.

Powerful, Army, Brave New World

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

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

Lying, Civilization, Waiting

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.

Powerful, Ignorance, Knowledge

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

Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

Meaningful, Country, Children

"Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 11 (p. 106), 1958.

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.

Generations, Next, Mass

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Men, Choices, World

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

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