Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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