The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut 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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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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