If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
ALDOUS HUXLEYConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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