By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYlife is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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 mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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 worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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