The more you know, the more you see
ALDOUS HUXLEYRound pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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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’s your own self.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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