Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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