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

— Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932

About Aldous Huxley

1894 – 1963

English writer, author of "Brave New World".

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”

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

“What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”