If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAssembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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