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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 Huxley

Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Even Floursihm Country Foot Know Liberty Near Permanently War
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Being Come Know Love Mind Shall Stillness Wisdom
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Among Church Consider Equivalent Father Going Mountain Walk
The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Art Better Desire Do Dread Greater Intelligent Nothing Population Responsibility Told
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Acco Doing Greatest Impish Propaganda Refraining Something Triumph
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Compassion Intelligence Live Long Nature Only Permitted Planer Shall Treat
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Beauty Beholder Both Holder Intoxicate Wine Worse
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Cause Kill Name never People Publican Secret Sinner Tell Torture
No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Individual No Social Stability
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Found Intellectual Interesting More One Person Thing
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Greater Greta Partial Silence Still Truth View
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Act Being Capable Great Human Irritation Seem Variety Way
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Abstraction All Consist Diabolical Human Being Last Propaganda Resort Substitute War
If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Gamble never Win
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Agreeable Boredom Excessive Liberty Painful Rather Symbol Traveller True
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Man Mas Murder Organizing Species Unique

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