The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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