People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBy thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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