The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut 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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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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