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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhen the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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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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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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