I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIgnore 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?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The more you know, the more you see
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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