Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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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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