The more you know, the more you see
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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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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