In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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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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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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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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