Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.
Aldous HuxleyOrthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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 HuxleyA whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.
Aldous HuxleyThe propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous HuxleyTo be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.
Aldous Huxley