Brave New World

I came across a quote by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, and that quote sent me looking for others. Wikiquote has lots of Huxley quotes, but here are some of my favorites:

• "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
• "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."
• "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
• "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
• "At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols."
• "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
• "Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."
• "Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in."
• "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.'"