Experience teaches only the teachable.
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
-
-
Every man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY