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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Ignorant Illusion Knowledge Most Ourselves Painful Pleasure Prefer Remain Self
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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Beare Being Country Get Insane Integrate Lynch Rational
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Backward Efficient Going Mean Merely More Progress Provide Technological
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Being Country Evolve Incapable Intellect Newton Pay Person Price Progress Race Supreme
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Condemned Fact Human Being Individual Instrument Most Stock Victim
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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Appear Elector Ignorance Nonsense Politician Powerful Propaganda World
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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From History Important Learn Lesson Men Much Very
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Everyone Rise Sun
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
If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Gamble never Win
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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Always Contrary Determine End Justify Mean Nature never Such Universe
Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Experience Teachable Teacher
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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Children Distinguish Meaningful Meaningless Nowhere Statement Systematic Taught Way
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
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Been Fear Manipulate Many never
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Always Been Discover Goal Life Suppose
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Become Ceil Every Floor Reach
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Artistry Ethical Good Individual Mass Produce Product Spiritual
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Given Litertaure Taken
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Ask Effective Life Most Often People Technique Transform
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Illusion Must Seriously Word
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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Advice Each Other Embarrassing Five Forty Give Kinder People Research Study Years
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
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Generation How Liberate Love Make Mass Next Question Rather
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Certain Corner Improve One Own Self Universe
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Great Knowledge Pleasure Torrance Way
It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Forgetting Free Learn Matter Past Remember Yet

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