The more you know, the more you see
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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