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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling.
If you don't gamble, you'll never win.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
... 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.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.