When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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 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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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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 world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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