Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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