If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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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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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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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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