To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLove 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.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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