For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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