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...

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.
Aldous Huxley

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But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside without taking into account whats going on in his heart and mind.
- Aldous Huxley
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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

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. Aldous Huxley

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.
Aldous Huxley