Aldous Huxley

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance: We don't know because we don't want to know. 

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit. 

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

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.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder.

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.

It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free- to be under no physical restraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel, and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation, wants him to think, feel, and act…The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting of 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.