I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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 more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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