Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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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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The more you know, the more you see
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