Fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
Author: Aldous Huxley | Source: The Atlantic | Subjects: Fear, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Of all the worn, smudged, dog-eared words in our vocabulary, “love” is surely the grubbiest, smelliest, slimiest. Bawled from a million pulpits, lasciviously crooned through hundreds of millions of loudspeakers, it has become an outrage to good taste and decent feeling, an obscenity which one hesitates to pronounce. And yet it has to be pronounced; for, after all, Love is the last word.
Author: Aldous Huxley | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Love
Knowledge is acquired when we succeed in fitting a new experience into the system of concepts based upon our old experiences. Understanding comes when we liberate ourselves from the old and so make possible a direct, unmediated contact with the new, the mystery, moment by moment, of our existence.
Author: Aldous Huxley | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement
All great truths are obvious truths, but not all obvious truths are great truths.
Author: Aldous Huxley | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Intelligence | Knowledge
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Author: Aldous Huxley | Subject: Personal Improvement