Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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