Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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