After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAt this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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