All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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Human 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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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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 goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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