If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt’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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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