Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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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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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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