It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere 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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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