Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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 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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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