I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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