People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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