What did Aldous Huxley mean by: All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. Aldous Huxley Writer · England Copy
In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Aldous Huxley, Consumption, Distractions, Human nature, 0 Aldous Huxley Writer · England
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Aldous Huxley, Belief, Deliverance, Faith, 0 Aldous Huxley Writer · England
+ Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body. Author, October 20, 2023January 2, 2025, Aldous Huxley, Balance, Consistency, Health, 0 Aldous Huxley Writer · England
+ Every ceiling reached becomes a floor. Author, June 18, 2023January 2, 2025, Aldous Huxley, Growth, Progression, Success, 0 Aldous Huxley Writer · England
+ To be excited is still to be unsatisfied. Author, August 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Aldous Huxley, Desires, Excitement, Satisfaction, 0 Aldous Huxley Writer · England
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Aldous Huxley, Consumption, Culture, Literacy, 0 Aldous Huxley Writer · England
+ An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. Author, August 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Aldous Huxley, Deception, Perception, Truth, 0 Aldous Huxley Writer · England
Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Aldous Huxley, Charity, Priority, Progress, 0 Aldous Huxley Writer · England
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Whoe’er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. 1st Baron Lansdowne Politician · United Kingdom