Love 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 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 HUXLEYA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
ALDOUS HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo be a fool at the right time is also an art.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEY