"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
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"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."
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"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 speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it."
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"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling."
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"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
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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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"Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left."
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
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"In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
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"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society."
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"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
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"Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism."
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"Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few."
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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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"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."
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"People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder."
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
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"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
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"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."
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"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion."
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