Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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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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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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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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