People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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 deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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The more you know, the more you see
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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