In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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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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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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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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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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