It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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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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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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