Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Topic: Knowledge
- Location: Oregon Coast
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More Quotes from Aldous Huxley
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
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More on Knowledge
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
