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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The more you know, the more you see
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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