Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more you know, the more you see
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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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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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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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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