Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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