All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
ALDOUS HUXLEYRound 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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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