There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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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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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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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 greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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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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 pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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