Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
ALDOUS HUXLEYDemocracy 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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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