An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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