Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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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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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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