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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.

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.
– Aldous Huxley

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  4. Life teach you lessons and those lessons are very painful. – Adnan Khan
  5. Camillo always say we are on earth to learn. I think I want to teach. I want to teach history so that the world does not have to repeat our mistakes. – Amy Harmon
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  7. … science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. – Aldous Huxley
  8. Liberties aren’t given, they are taken. – Aldous Huxley
  9. What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning? – Aldous Huxley
  10. I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. – Aldous Huxley
  11. Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. – Aldous Huxley
  12. These,- he said gravely, -œare unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. – Aldous Huxley
  13. But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind. – Aldous Huxley
  14. My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. – Aldous Huxley
  15. Nature is powerless to put asunder. – Aldous Huxley
  16. Pain was a fascinating horror – Aldous Huxley
  17. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. – Aldous Huxley
  18. Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man’s distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived. – Aldous Huxley
  19. However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for. – Aldous Huxley
  20. Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time. – Aldous Huxley
  21. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity – Aldous Huxley
  22. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. – Aldous Huxley
  23. There was something called Christianity. – Aldous Huxley
  24. Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner. – Aldous Huxley
  25. Every man’s memory is his private literature. – Aldous Huxley
  26. It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. – Aldous Huxley
  27. It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other. – Aldous Huxley
  28. If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely. – Aldous Huxley
  29. Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. – Aldous Huxley
  30. You pays your money and you takes your choice. – Aldous Huxley
  31. Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation. – Aldous Huxley
  32. Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep -“ – Aldous Huxley
  33. For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. – Aldous Huxley
  34. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born. – Aldous Huxley
  35. [T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. – Aldous Huxley
  36. Experience teaches only the teachable. – Aldous Huxley
  37. A hell, from which one can be saved by a quibble that would carry no weight with a police magistrate, cannot be taken very seriously. – Aldous Huxley
  38. The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. – Aldous Huxley
  39. Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt. – Aldous Huxley
  40. That is the secret of happiness and virtue – liking what you’ve got to do. – Aldous Huxley

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