Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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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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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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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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