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?
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhich is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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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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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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