Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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