People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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 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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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