There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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