Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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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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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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