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.
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.
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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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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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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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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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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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