Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence — either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous ‘embarkation’ and heroic conquest, or else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of sensuality, a frenzy of romantic passion, more creditably, in the mutual charity of the perfect marriage.
Aldous HuxleyThe untutored egotist merely wants what he wants. Give him a religious education, and it becomes obvious to him, it becomes axiomatic, that what he wants is what God wants, that his cause is the cause of whatever he may happen to regard as the True Church and that any compromise is a metaphysical Munich, an appeasement of Radical Evil.
Aldous HuxleyHabit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.
Aldous HuxleyThe question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No, we don't. And if that's his answer, then he won't have anything to do with any of the politicians. Because they all want to land us in hell.
Aldous HuxleyUnmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.
Aldous HuxleyÉste es el secreto de la felicidad: amar lo que uno tiene que hacer.[...] lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social.
Aldous HuxleyTags: distopía
Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
Aldous HuxleyNothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.
Aldous HuxleyEverybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
Aldous HuxleyEmbraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain.
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