An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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