The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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 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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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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.
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The more you know, the more you see
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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