Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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