All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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