Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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 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 victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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