Aldous Huxley Quotes About Truth
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But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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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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