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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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