To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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 worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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