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 HUXLEYThere 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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