The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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