All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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To 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.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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