If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

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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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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.

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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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No social stability without individual stability.

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No social stability without individual stability.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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