Quote #14

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

More from Aldous Huxley

  1. To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
  2. The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
  3. Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the mean…
  4. So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
  5. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
  6. Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or …
  7. Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you …
  8. There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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