Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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