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?
ALDOUS HUXLEYAt this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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 development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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