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 HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The more you know, the more you see
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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