Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
ALDOUS HUXLEYFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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For 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 idols
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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