The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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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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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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