“Everyone Who Wants to Do Good” – Aldous Huxley
“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”
Aldous Huxley
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“Man is unique …” – Quote by Aldous Huxley
“Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.”
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley on Servitude and Distraction
“What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.”
Aldous Huxley
Neil Postman: Schooling and Life Building
“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.”
Neil Postman
The German Language is the Deepest – Karl Kraus Quote
“The German language is the deepest, the German speech the most superficial.”
Karl Kraus
Language is the Clothing of Thoughts – Samuel Johnson
“Language is the clothing of thoughts.”
Samuel Johnson
A Good Father – Quote by Unknown
“A good father is one of the least acknowledged, praised, or noticed and at the same time most valuable assets of our society.”
Unbekannt
Ernst Hohenemser: The oldest alliance of lying and stupidity
“The oldest and most enduring alliance is that of lying and stupidity.”
Ernst Hohenemser
Edwin Powell Hubble Quote: Why a Privileged Place in the Universe is Unlikely
“Such a condition would imply that we occupy a unique position in the universe, analogous, in a sense, to the ancient conception of a central earth. The hypothesis cannot be disproved but it is unwelcome and would be accepted only as a last resort in order to save the phenomena. […] But the unwelcome supposition of a favoured location must be avoided at all costs.”
Edwin Powell Hubble
Stephen William Hawking Quote: Understanding Humility Before the Universe
“Now at first sight, all this evidence that the universe looks the same whichever direction we look in might seem to suggest there is something special about our place in the universe. In particular, it might seem that if we observe all other galaxies to be moving away from us, then we must be at the center of the universe. There is, however, an alternate explanation: the universe might look the same in every direction as seen from any other galaxy too. This, as we have seen, was Friedmann’s second assumption. We have no scientific evidence for, or against, this assumption. We believe it only on grounds of modesty”
Stephen William Hawking