The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAs political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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 most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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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