Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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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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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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The more you know, the more you see
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