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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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