If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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