Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThanks 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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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