The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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