Aldous Huxley Quotes

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

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Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.

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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations

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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

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