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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More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The more you know, the more you see
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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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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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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