People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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