Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
Aldous HuxleyThat all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous HuxleyBut then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account whatโs going on in his heart and mind.
Aldous HuxleyPeople will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
Aldous Huxley