Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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