Una dictadura perfecta tendría la apariencia de una democracia,pero sería básicamente una prisión sin muros de la que los presos ni siquiera sonarían con escapar.Sería esencialmente un sistema de esclavitud,en el que gracias al consumo y el entretenimiento,los esclavos amarian su servidumbre.


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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever gi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often su...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-g...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, ex...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given hi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own se...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, how...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the m...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritua...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Pain was a fascinating horror
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can neve...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the star...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psy...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
ALDOUS HUXLEY