People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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 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.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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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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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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