3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Experience is not what happens to you it’s what you do with what happens to you.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
