Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEYConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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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 deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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