People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEveryone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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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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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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