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.
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
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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.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
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, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
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There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.
He that hunts others, must run himself.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.
I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
