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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAddiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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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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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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 most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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