By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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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 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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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 development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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