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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHe accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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