By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLove casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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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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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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