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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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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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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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