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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

... 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

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

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

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Aldous Huxley
Truth, Honesty, Lying

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

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Aldous Huxley
Truth, Literature, Platitudes
Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Aldous Huxley
Truth, Brave New World, Two
Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.

Aldous Huxley
Art, Truth, Past
Aldous Huxley (2015). “After Many a Summer”, p.160, Random House

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Aldous Huxley
Good Morning, Truth, Men
Aldous Huxley (1943). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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