Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, … - Aldous Huxley

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right.

Aldous Huxley

Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.

Home, Lives, Man, Matter, Men, Two

Same Author Quotes

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Love, Oppression, Technology, Think, Thinking

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.

Believe, Free, Invisible, Mind, Victim, Wall

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Experience, Happens, Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

Kill, Lies, Lying, Men, Names, Torture

There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.

Concentration, Nwo, People, Taken, Tears

Similar Quotes

Sister Souljah

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources. That you be willing to pay Black people reparations for our years and years of service in this country. That you be willing to go home and tell your white mother and father about white racism and how it affects and kills Black people in our communities. That's my definition of good white people, and I haven't met any like that.

Country, Giving Up, Good, Home, Mother

Kathryn Stockett

Baby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?" She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "To wipe my bottom good when I'm done?" "No, baby, the other one. About who you are.

Baby, Girl, Gone, Hiccups, Remember, Remembers Everything

George Coyne

The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms of the Universe, and therefore our view of God, et cetera. But, that took centuries, and struggles, and conflicts before that happened.

Cetera, Church, Development, Struggle, Views

Rachel Maddow

When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.

Believe, Bidding, Party, People, Popped

Noam Chomsky