Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll 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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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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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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