It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt 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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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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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