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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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 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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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