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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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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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Except Higher Ignore Longer More Must Persist Price Really Terrible
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Backward Efficient Going Mean Merely More Progress Provide Technological
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Words 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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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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