One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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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 victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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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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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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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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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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