If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNo social stability without individual stability.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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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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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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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