At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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