An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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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 more you know, the more you see
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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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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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