Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDon’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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