Quote

And no wonder for the new technique of subliminal projection, as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Aldous Huxley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Part
Played
Intimately
Human
Mass
Projection
Humans
Beings
Associated
Play
Middle
Ages
Life
Wonder
Civilized
Called
Plays
Massed
Age
Technique
Subliminal
Religion
Entertainment
Comparable

More quotes by Aldous Huxley

Image
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside they're on the premises, all the time.
Aldous Huxley
Image
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley
Image
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
Aldous Huxley
Image
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
Image
One of the great attractions of patriotism
Aldous Huxley
Image
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley
Image
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.
Aldous Huxley
Image
If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.
Aldous Huxley
Image
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol none of their defects.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Happiness is never grand.
Aldous Huxley
Image
What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
Aldous Huxley
Image
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Aldous Huxley
Image
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
Aldous Huxley