Liberties aren't given, they are taken.
Aldous HuxleyTags: freedom
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
Aldous HuxleyJe veux savoir ce que c'est que la passion, lui entendait-elle dire. Je veux ressentir quelque chose avec violence.
Aldous HuxleyThis concern with the basic condition of freedom — the absence of physical constraint — is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.
Aldous HuxleyTags: freedom indoctrination freedom-of-thoughts mind-control
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
Aldous HuxleyThe man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend
Aldous HuxleyTags: perception huxley doors
O wonder!' he was saying; and his eyes shone, his face was brightly flushed. 'How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! ... O brave new world! O brave new world that has such people in it.
Aldous HuxleyThe optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
Aldous HuxleyBut 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 HuxleyTags: humanity understanding
A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.
Aldous HuxleyTags: writing
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