Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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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 most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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