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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

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

Motivational, Self, Universe, You, Own

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

Attitude, Age, Child, Losing, Old Age

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. - Aldous Huxley

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. Aldous Huxley

Perception, Brainy, Doors, Unknown

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley

Music, Silence, Expressing, Which, After

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley

Wisdom, Experience, You, Happens

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. - Aldous Huxley

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley

Travel, Wrong, Everyone, Discover, Other

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. - Aldous Huxley

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley

Truth, Know, You, Mad, Make, Shall

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley

Religion, Mind, Powerful, Solitude, Will

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

Soul, I Am, Fate, My Soul, Captain, Only

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

Strength, Heart, Man, God, Travel, Soul

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Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley

World, Hell, Planet, Maybe, Another

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

Self, Universe, You, Own, Improving

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley

Infinite, Human, Things, Most, Almost

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Aldous Huxley

War, Democracy, Country, Bureaucracy

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? Aldous Huxley

Life, Good, Art, Happy, Artist, Want

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley

Facts, Because, Exist, Ignored, Cease

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. - Aldous Huxley

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Aldous Huxley

Beauty, Wine, Worse, Beholder, Than

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' Aldous Huxley

Life, End, Problem, Advice, Find, Try

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. Aldous Huxley

Freedom, Boredom, True, Liberty, Painful

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. Aldous Huxley

Truth, Silence, Great, Opinion, View

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Aldous Huxley

Patriotism, Great, Feeling, Nation, More

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

Technology, Progress, Technological, Us

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley

Life, Nature, People, Consistency, Dead

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

Truth, You, Always, Proverbs, Personally

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. Aldous Huxley

Good, Bullying, Race, Always, Human, Who

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. Aldous Huxley

Rare, Must, Else, Solemn, Cease

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