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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNo social stability without individual stability.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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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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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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