You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAddiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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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 that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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