You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not as yet quite intelligent enough.
Aldous Huxley
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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process it seemed was reversible. Mental excess could produce for its own purposes the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude the artificial impotence of asceticism.
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
- Aldous Huxley