There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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