It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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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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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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The more you know, the more you see
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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 deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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