Creatures Quote by Aldous Huxley

““Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.””

Aldous Huxley

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“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.”

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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my…

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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

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Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,…

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“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,…

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“I’ll MAKE you be free whether you want to or not.’ -The Savage”

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Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create…

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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done…

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“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now…

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All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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