The Wisdom Letter #171

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

— Aldous Huxley

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

— Aldous Huxley

“All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.”

— Aldous Huxley