Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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