Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYGood is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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 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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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