One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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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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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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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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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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