There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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 greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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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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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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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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