The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
- Topic: Solitude
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Aldous Huxley
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
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More on Solitude
I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
