It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost 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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they 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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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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