The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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 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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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