I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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 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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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.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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