If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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