I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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 trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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