We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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 greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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