That so many of the well fed young television-watchers in the world's most powerful democracy should be so completely indifferent to the idea of self-government, so blankly uninterested in freedom of thought and the right to dissent, is distressing, but not too surprising. "Free as a bird", we say, and envy the winged creatures for their power of unrestricted movement in all the three dimensions. But alas, we forget the dodo. Any bird that has learned how to grub up a good living without being compelled to use its wings will soon renounce the privilege of flight and remain forever grounded.
Aldous Huxley...the first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: "How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievement, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End?
Aldous Huxley¿Cómo puede el cuerdo saber lo que realmente se siente cuando se está loco?
Aldous HuxleyStichwörter: las-puertas-de-la-percepción
Our epoch has been give many nicknames--the Age of Anxiety, the Atomic Age, the Space Age. It might, with equally good reason, be called the Age of Television Addiction, the Age of Soap Opera, the Age of the Disk Jockey.
Aldous HuxleyA felicidade universal mantém as engrenagens em funcionamento regular; a verdade e a beleza são incapazes de fazê-lo.
Aldous HuxleyStichwörter: universal felicidade verdade beleza
A beleza atrai, e nós não queremos que ninguém seja atraído pelas coisas antigas. Queremos que amem as novas.
Aldous HuxleyStichwörter: beleza antiguidade atração
If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.
Aldous HuxleyStichwörter: politics rationality
One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?
Aldous HuxleyStichwörter: life education philosophy ideas academia intellectualism
Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.
Aldous HuxleyBoth of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
Aldous HuxleyStichwörter: life plague gray-life
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