The 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYGood is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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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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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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