The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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