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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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