That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
ALDOUS HUXLEYChronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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