Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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