To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf 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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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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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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The 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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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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