I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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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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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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