Quotes from Island (1962) by Aldous Huxley
“Patriotism is not enough.” But neither is anything else. Science is not enough, religion is not enough,
art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however
disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.”
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality.
All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
“One of the many reasons for the
bewildering and tragic character
of human existence is the fact that
social organization is at once necessary
and fatal. Men are forever creating
such organizations for their own
convenience and forever finding
themselves the victims of their
home-made monsters.”