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.
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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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 goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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