Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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