People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNo social stability without individual stability.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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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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