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All 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.

Aldous Huxley

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Arrest Chance Child Continue Contrary Develop Development Given Himself Like Man
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Ignorant Illusion Knowledge Most Ourselves Painful Pleasure Prefer Remain Self
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Beare Being Country Get Insane Integrate Lynch Rational
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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Certain Corner Improve One Own Self Universe
The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Art Better Desire Do Dread Greater Intelligent Nothing Population Responsibility Told
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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Act Disquiet Find Knowledge Ourselves Point Question Really Upon Wish
Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Experience Teachable Teacher
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Book Great Inform Instructive Merely Must Number Quick Read
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Agreeable Boredom Excessive Liberty Painful Rather Symbol Traveller True
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Always Been Discover Goal Life Suppose
If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Another Being Either Hang Human Kill Like Really Shown Themselves Vermin
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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Advice Each Other Embarrassing Five Forty Give Kinder People Research Study Years
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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Appear Elector Ignorance Nonsense Politician Powerful Propaganda World
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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Belong Claim Cow Dingle Disgraceful Mindedness Person Same Shakespeare Simple Species Very Well
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Arise City Famous Long Make Men Miserable People Personality Person So Worship
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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Between Choice Follow Made Madman Madness Man Reason Unhestaingly Word

All 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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All 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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