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.
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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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.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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