All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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