To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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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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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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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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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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