If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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