Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
ALDOUS HUXLEYI wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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