A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDemocracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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