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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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