Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxleywas an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a first in English literature...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 July 1894
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
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Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
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Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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.
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.