Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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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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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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 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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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