You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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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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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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