Not who you're looking for? Others named Aldous Huxley: English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”
“Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory — reason.”
“Resentment bred shame, and shame in its turn bred more resentment.”
“It often happens that reforms merely have the effect of transferring the undesirable tendencies of individuals from one channel to another channel. An old outlet for some particular wickedness is closed; but a new outlet is opened. The wickedness is not abolished; it is merely provided with a different set of opportunities for self-expression.”
“However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.”
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
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