I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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