The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty, 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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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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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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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