And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue โ liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
Aldous HuxleyThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous HuxleyThe vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
Aldous HuxleyWhatโs the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
Aldous HuxleyEvery individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
Aldous Huxley