The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLove casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty, 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 central government.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHe accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAt this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAddiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhen the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAs political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
ALDOUS HUXLEY