The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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