It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEvery ceiling reached becomes a floor.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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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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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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