Aldous Huxley - Island (1962)

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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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Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

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In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

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One Folk, One Realm, One Leader. Union with the unity of an insect swarm. Knowledgeless understanding of nonsense and diabolism. And then the newsreel camera had cut back to the serried ranks, the swastikas, the brass bands, the yelling hypnotist on the rostrum. And here once again, in the glare of his inner light, was the brown insectlike column, marching endlessly to the tunes of this rococo horror-music. Onward Nazi soldiers, onward Christian soldiers, onward Marxists and Muslims, onward every chosen People, every Crusader and Holy War-maker. Onward into misery, into all wickedness, into death!

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Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof – that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

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Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

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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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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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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

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Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.

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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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Which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

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The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...

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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

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