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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.
Aldous Huxley
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground has, as its necessary condition, self-abnegation and charity. Only by means of self-abnegation and charity can we clear away the evil, folly and ignorance which constitute the thing we call our personality and prevent us from becoming aware of the spark of divinity illuminating the inner man.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg - eight ninths below the water line, one ninth above.
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.
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You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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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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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Christian philosophers have found no difficulty in justifying imperialism, war, the capitalist system, the use of torture, the censorship of the press and ecclesiastical tyrannies of every sort, from the tyranny of Rome to the tyrannies of Geneva and New England.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Experience teaches only the teachable…
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.
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Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley