My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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 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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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