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.
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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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