Aldous Huxley Quotes

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

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.