Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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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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