If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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.
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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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