To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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