Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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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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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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