Tag: Aldous Huxley
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous Huxley
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley
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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Aldous Huxley
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Aldous Huxley