The more you know, the more you see
ALDOUS HUXLEYAssembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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