Tag: Aldous Huxley
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
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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.
Aldous Huxley
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley
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Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Aldous Huxley
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.
Aldous Huxley
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
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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.
Aldous Huxley
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley