Author of quotes: Aldous Huxley

Since man is an embodied mind, since physical destruction and death are inevitable for him, since he feels pain and pleasure, his actions are guided by personal likes and dislikes, he is torn between the thirst for self-affirmation and the desire to go beyond the boundaries of his “I” - he is everywhere and everywhere, in any era he faces eternal problems, resists eternal temptations and has permission (directly from the Order of Things) to either fall or achieve enlightenment. The context changes, but the essence and content remain.

It is not possible for a person to focus his attention on evil, or even the idea of evil, and remain untainted.

For the first time in his life, Grandier understood the meaning of repentance - not in words, according to the scholastic definition, but from within, with all his soul; It turned out that repenting is painful. Because you're beating yourself up.

In the given circumstances, what is surprising is not individual cases of demon possession, but something completely different - how, with such a density of demons per cubic meter of air, some people managed to live their entire lives and happily avoid demon possession?

By thinking and acting in a particular situation not in the way that is inherent to us, but in the way that, in our opinion, another person with greater merits than ours would think and act, we move away from our own essence and begin to resemble the ideal.

People do not try to get to the bottom of the reasons for their passions and bad habits, do not delve into the state of the soul, do not strive to understand in which direction the soul is developing, and do not reflect on the movements of the heart.

Even the most balanced people, who have excellent self-control, sometimes feel an inexplicable temptation to do something completely different from what they should do. Very often this temptation is associated with the creation of evil, without any reason, without any benefit. In other words, an unjustified rebellion against common sense and generally accepted rules of behavior.

In prosperous times, the public consciousness is happy to appoint a hero, and in hard times (almost with greater pleasure) - a scapegoat.

Too many are in a hurry to be content with the quick-ripening fruits of hatred and anger, instead of waiting for the slow-ripening fruits of love for their neighbor.

It's good sometimes to stop talking, stop thinking, and for a change, just be.

An essay is a type of literature that allows you to say almost everything about almost nothing.

The reasons for the success of mass culture are its recognition, accessibility, as well as the constant confirmation of high

I like him more than anyone I've ever known in my life.

The dream of order breeds tyranny, the dream of beauty breeds monsters and violence.