Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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 secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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The more you know, the more you see
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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