Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.
Aldous HuxleyOne third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
Aldous HuxleyTags: sorrow human-condition
Walking and talking - that seemed a very odd way of spending an afternoon.
Aldous HuxleyTags: walking
Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.
Aldous HuxleyTags: society-individualism
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
Aldous HuxleyTags: technology control
But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.
Aldous HuxleyWithout economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence
Aldous HuxleyEven science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science.
Aldous HuxleyWe shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
Aldous HuxleyOne touches and, in the act of touching, one's touched.
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