Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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