It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIn all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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But 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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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