An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
ALDOUS HUXLEYRound 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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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