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 HUXLEYTo travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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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.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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