Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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 people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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