All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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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.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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