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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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