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Aldous Leonard Huxley

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Aldous Leonard 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."	Miscellaneous
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."	Men, Monarchy
"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen."	Men, Reading
"Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil."	Art, Evil, Experience
"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly."	Art, Knowledge, Wisdom
"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes."	Ability, Adversity, Difficulty
"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."	Men, Politics, Power
"When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to."	Age, Duty, Evil
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."	Ability, Education, School
"It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."	Destiny, Fate, Honesty
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."	Age, Genius, Sin
"Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital."	Ability, Knowledge, Wisdom
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."	Education, History, Learning
"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture."	Excellence, Knowledge, Wisdom
"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look."	Age, Art
"Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today."	Time
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