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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Aldous Huxley

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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Great Human Justifier Least Malice Miseries Motivation Stupidity Third Two
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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How Intoxicate People Really Themselves Work
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Great Knowledge Pleasure Torrance Way
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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All Army Boss Control Efficient Excite Manager One Political Population Powerful Really Start Totalitarian
The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Communication Development Infinity Man More Neither Sitraction Totally
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Adore Capable Come Love Oppression People Technology Think
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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Compassion Intelligence Live Long Nature Only Permitted Planer Shall Treat
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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Except Higher Ignore Longer More Must Persist Price Really Terrible
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Everyone Rise Sun
The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Anyone Daily Done Letting Lord Million Own Petition Prayer Repeat Slightest Third
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Among Church Consider Equivalent Father Going Mountain Walk
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Abstraction All Consist Diabolical Human Being Last Propaganda Resort Substitute War
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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Greater Greta Partial Silence Still Truth View
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Against Believe Deepest Evidence Juman Mind
Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Cage Exist Gilded Just Liberty World
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Agreeable Boredom Excessive Liberty Painful Rather Symbol Traveller True

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