The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong....

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong....

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one...

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one...

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary,...

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary,...

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with...

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion...

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion...

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and...

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and...

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the...

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the...

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal...

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age...

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.