The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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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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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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