By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWe shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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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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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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