The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.