There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous HuxleyThe vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
Aldous HuxleyI know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
Aldous HuxleyProcrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesnโt fitโwell, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputationโthe same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.
Aldous Huxley