The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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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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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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