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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDon’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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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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.
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