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.
Aldous Huxley
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ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Cuando el jardín de la memoria comienza a secarse -le había dicho Celâl una de aquellas noches-, ... ORHAN PAMUK Queremos que el fotógrafo sea un espía en la casa del amor y de la muerte y que los retratados no ... SUSAN SONTAG No puedo hablar de nuestra historia de amor, así que hablaré de matemáticas. No soy matemática, ... JOHN GREEN la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa... OCTAVIO PAZ El pueblo antiguo que deseaba tener una clara armonía moral en el mundo, ordenaba primero su vida n... CONFUCIUS Tu casa, al ser el lugar donde lees, puede decirnos cuál es el lugar que los libros tienen en tu vi... ITALO CALVINO Algunas veces te levantas de la cama y ya no sabes porqué estás luchando. ¿Estás luchando el dí... EMILIO BUESO Su contacto tenía una fuerza tierna y los dedos de ambos se entrelazaron con tanta naturalidad que ... DAN BROWN Para bailar, hay que merecerlo. 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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
Its the only thing we havent 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