To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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