So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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