life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo 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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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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