If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNo social stability without individual stability.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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