Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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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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