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.
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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.
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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.
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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.
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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