Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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