Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAssembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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