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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo be a fool at the right time is also an art.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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