The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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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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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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 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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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