That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets...

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets...

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the...

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the...

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary,...

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary,...

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with...

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with...

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

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

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give...

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give...

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

There is no bad day that cant be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet....

There is no bad day that cant be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet....

I:The Student - To me the universe is a school, and i am the student...

I:The Student - To me the universe is a school, and i am the student...

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will...

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will...

Music, the mosaic of the air

Music, the mosaic of the air