Tag: Aldous Huxley
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The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous Huxley
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There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Aldous Huxley
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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley