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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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 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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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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