That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAddiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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