One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
Aldous HuxleyTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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 HuxleySons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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