Experience teaches only the teachable.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWords can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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