Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Quote by Aldous Huxley
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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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Aldous Huxley Quotes
- After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- The silent bear no witness against themselves.
- We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
- Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- 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.
- Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
- Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
- We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
Best Quotes
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- When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
- Love her now, you will miss her when she turns her back on you.
- I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.