I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA 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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The more you know, the more you see
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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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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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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