The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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