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 HUXLEYThe older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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