Aldous Huxley Quotes About Knowledge
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In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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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 cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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