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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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