Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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