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“Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

tags: huxley, inspirational, island, metaphysical-beliefs, metaphysics

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“which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

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“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

tags: consumerism

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“We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

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“Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

tags: religion

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