Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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.
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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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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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