Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHuman 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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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