There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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