There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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The more you know, the more you see
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