Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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