All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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