The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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