truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:13 am

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:16 am

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:17 am

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:18 am

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:20 am

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley

Ebor · Post by **Ebor** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:21 am

Again, I appreciate your putting up these posts, Ekaterina. There are some particularly cogent ones in the last few days. Thank you.

Ebor

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:22 am

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley