I wanted to change the world.
But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Quote by Aldous Huxley
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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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Aldous Huxley Quotes
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by product of other activities.
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- 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.
- To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
- I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
- Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
- After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Best Quotes
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- I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
- I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
- There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
- My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
- In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
- It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'