Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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 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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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