Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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