The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHuman beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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