At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
ALDOUS HUXLEYWe shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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People 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.
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