A 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 HuxleyYou got rid of them. Yes, thatโs just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether โtis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end themโฆ But you donโt do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. Itโs too easy.
Aldous HuxleyWherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
Aldous HuxleyDon't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
Aldous Huxley