The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
ALDOUS HUXLEYFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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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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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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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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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