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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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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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