All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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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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