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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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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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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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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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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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