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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
The Doors of Perception (1954)
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Proper Studies (1927)
Words are good servants but bad masters.
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1952)
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
Point Counter Point (1928)
One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time—that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.
Do What You Will (1928)
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Texts and Pretexts (1932)
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen.
Crome Yellow (1921)
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
Point Counter Point (1928)
If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.
Crome Yellow (1921)
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Ends and Means (1937)
He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.
Crome Yellow (1921)