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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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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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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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 survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The 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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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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