The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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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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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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