The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The more you know, the more you see
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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