Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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 worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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