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 HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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The more you know, the more you see
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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