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.
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
The more you know, the more you see
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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.
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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. 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.
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Nothing short of everything will really do.
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
No social stability without individual stability.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
Words are good servants but bad masters.
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