My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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