If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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