Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
The more you know, the more you see
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
No social stability without individual stability.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
Words are good servants but bad masters.
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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.
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.
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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