The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Wherever 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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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