Aldous Huxley

"The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free." Aldous Huxley

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

"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie." Aldous Huxley

"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid." Aldous Huxley

"The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective." Aldous Huxley

"The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self." Aldous Huxley

"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." Aldous Huxley

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

"Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry" Aldous Huxley

"The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously." Aldous Huxley

"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." Aldous Huxley

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

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." Aldous Huxley

""... 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