Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- theyโll go through anything. You read and youโre pierced.
Aldous HuxleyOrthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
Aldous HuxleyThatโs what the human brain is there forโto turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often thereโs a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; thatโs religion.
Aldous HuxleyThose who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Aldous HuxleyOur business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.
Aldous Huxley