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If one had an imagination vivid enough and a sympathy sufficiently sensitive really to comprehend and to feel the sufferings of other people, one would never have a moment’s peace of mind. A really sympathetic race would not so much as know the meaning of happiness.

— Aldous Huxley Crome Yellow (1921)

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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

The Doors of Perception (1954)

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

Brave New World Revisited (1958)

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Proper Studies (1927)

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

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I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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