There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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