You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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