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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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The 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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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