Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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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 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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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