Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more you know, the more you see
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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 secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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 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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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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