The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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 most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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