Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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