Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSingle-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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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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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