All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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