If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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