The more you know, the more you see
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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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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