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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

#europe #his #image #man #metaphysical

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consistency #consistent #contrary #dead #life

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#about #countries #discover #everyone #other

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

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consistent #history #revolutionary #sade

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#forget #human #make #other #people

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#attention #discovers #doing #done #formula

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#customary #end #fate #heresies #history

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#before #believer #freedom #lunch #man

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. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#changes #charm #completely #consist #different