A 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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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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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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