life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Chronic 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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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.
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