I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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 trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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 more you know, the more you see
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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