A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNo social stability without individual stability.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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