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 HUXLEYMost ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The more you know, the more you see
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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