A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEveryone 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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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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