All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHigher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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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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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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