Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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