"Experience teaches only the teachable."
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"No social stability without individual stability."
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"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
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"If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb."
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"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 them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in."
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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
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"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."
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"Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books."
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"We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence."
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"The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown."
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"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
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"Words are good servants but bad masters."
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"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."
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"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."
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"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."
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"We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves."
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"Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?"
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"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying."
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"This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act."
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"For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols"
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