It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it...

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it...

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different.

From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which...

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

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

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

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give...

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give...

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Happiness is like coke something you get as a by-product in the process of making...

Happiness is like coke something you get as a by-product in the process of making...

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

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

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary,...

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary,...

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid...

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid...

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

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