"Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most……" — Aldous Huxley
"Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy."
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Aldous Huxley
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley has 533 quotes on this site.
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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to…
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others,…
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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…
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up,…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that…
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with…
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Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics…
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It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers…
— Archibald Rutledge
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When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned,…
— Rajneesh
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Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror…
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Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the…
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Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality 'of closed eyes,' but one of 'alertness,' one which entails an absolute…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are…
— Rajneesh
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For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities…
— Rajneesh
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The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but…
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The same is the case when you enter a womb, enter into a fresh body, and start the journey of…
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