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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAddiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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