Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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