Aldous Huxley - poet and a prophet.

[marmar]

I ran across some Huxley quotes today that are very apropros for these times. Brilliant man.


At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.