That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLove 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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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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A 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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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