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

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Improvement Quotes, People Quotes, Universe Quotes

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...

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the...

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the...

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one...

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one...

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong....

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong....

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it...

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

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

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

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat...

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat...

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in...

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in...

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...

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of...

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of...

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time...

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time...

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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

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

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is...

How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is...

Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying...

Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying...

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything...

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything...