Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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