For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more you know, the more you see
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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