Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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