Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo 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.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Thanks 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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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