The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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No social stability without individual stability.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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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.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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