The more you know, the more you see
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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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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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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