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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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