There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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 isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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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