Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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