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ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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