T. H. Huxley Quotes
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
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.
which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.
