If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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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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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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