The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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 intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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