Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (1932)

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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

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Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

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It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

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Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

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Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

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