If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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