Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Wikipedia - The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Because their voice has been silences so early in their lives. Normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Aldous Huxley - The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Aldous Huxley - Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched. Aldous Huxley - Huxley argued that mescaline should replace alcohol because it provides the same sense of escapism and altered state of consciousness without negative side effects. "The Doors of Perception" paved the way for psychedelic counterculture of the '60s. Aldous Huxley, 1954 1001 IDEAS