If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEYFor 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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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