In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
ALDOUS HUXLEYlife 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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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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