But if you know about God, why don’t you tell them?' asked the Savage indignantly.
'Why don’t you give them these books about God?'
'For the same reason as we don’t give them Othello: they’re old; they’re about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now.'
'But God doesn’t change.'
'Men do, though.'
'What difference does that make?'
"All the difference in the world,' said Mustapha Mond.
Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet.
Aldous HuxleyTags: extremes
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
Aldous HuxleyTags: power-of-thoughts
Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.
Aldous HuxleyThe Lord's Prayer is less than fifty words long, and six of those words are devoted to asking God not to lead us into temptation.
Aldous HuxleyExperience is not what happens to you; it's what you o with what happens to you.
Aldous HuxleyNothing you do is ever insignificant.
Aldous HuxleyArt, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
Aldous HuxleyEach person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.
Aldous HuxleyCea mai gravă infracțiune a lui fusese să accepte lumea în care trăia ca pe una normală, rațională și corectă. Ca toți ceilalți, permisese publicității să îi multiplice dorințele; învățase să echivaleze fericirea cu posesiunile, iar prosperitatea cu banii cheltuiți la magazin.
Aldous HuxleyTags: life happiness romanian-fericire
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