Every man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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