You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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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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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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All 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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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