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- Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
- 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…
- I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a…
- Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to…
- 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…
- Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
- A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
- Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than…
- Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only…
- Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in…
- Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
- All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
- Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
- Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly…
- From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
- The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's…
- Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
- There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to…
- All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and…
- 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…
- What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare)…
- The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing…
- Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating.…
- One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster