Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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A 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.
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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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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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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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