There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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 ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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