There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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