#ma

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#been #bit #concerned #embarrassing #end

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#europe #his #image #man #metaphysical

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#defined #doubt #fanatic #man #psychological

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #either #hang #human #human beings

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consciously #doubt #fanatic #man #over

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. ↗