Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEvery man’s memory is his private literature.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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