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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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 development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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