Aldous Huxley
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
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"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
Aldous Huxley
"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility."
Aldous Huxley
"Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead."
Aldous Huxley
"The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac."
Aldous Huxley
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
Aldous Huxley
"Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting."
Aldous Huxley
"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley
"The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms."
Aldous Huxley
"The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value."
Aldous Huxley
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery."
Aldous Huxley
"It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with I, me, mine, that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's."
Aldous Huxley
The Perennial Philosophy
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley
Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera."
Aldous Huxley
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