After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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