He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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 most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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