As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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