3 Quotes & Sayings By Huxley

Sir Aldous Leonard Huxley was a British novelist, essayist, and intellectual, best known for his contributions to the evolution of modern science fiction. He had a profound influence on twentieth century thought, and was selected as one of the 100 Greatest Britons by the British national newspaper The Independent on Sunday in 2002.

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And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears—that's what soma is. . Huxley
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Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too—all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides—made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are OUR suggestions! " The Director almost shouted in his triumph. "Suggestions from the State. Huxley