life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more you know, the more you see
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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