By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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As 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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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