
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 ideas.
Aldous Huxley
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons history has to teach.
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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay-in solid cash-the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
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