Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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The more you know, the more you see
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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No social stability without individual stability.
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