The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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 goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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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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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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