"If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place."
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"...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary."
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"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."
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"Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil."
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"The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator."
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"In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months."
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"Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them."
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"Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you."
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"And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion."
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"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."
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"Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be"
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"Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work."
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"If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it."
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery."
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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
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"Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master."
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"If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats."
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"Ending is better than mending."
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"You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave."
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"In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
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