Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous HuxleyI ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
Aldous Huxleywhich is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
Aldous HuxleyIf humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.
Aldous Huxley