Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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