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Brave New World (1932)
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I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...
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We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.
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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 it 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 distraction.
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You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.
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However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
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Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
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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.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
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Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
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Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
Aldous Huxley
Born:
July 26, 1894
Died:
November 22, 1963
(aged 69)
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