Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWords 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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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