I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Words are good servants but bad masters.
It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
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.
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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.
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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.
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.
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
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.
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.
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.
In real life there is no such person as the average man.
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.
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
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