The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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 more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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