The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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 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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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