Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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 more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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