I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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