The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAssembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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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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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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 trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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