All the thoughts, all the preoccupations in my head - round and round, continually What's it for? What's it all for? To put an end to the quiet, to break it up and disperse it, to pretend at any cost that it isn't there. Deliberately - to put a stop to the quietness. 'But we build bandstands and factories on them. 'There are quiet places also in the mind', he said meditatively.Stupidity or reason? Oh, there was no choice now.The Gioconda smile, in Mortal Coils (1921).And now you go about saying I'm a murderer. It was all a damned stupid, practical joke. I don't know what the devil ever induced me to marry you. When will you women understand that one isn't insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won't allow one to have. I suppose you imagined I was so insanely in love with you that I could commit any folly.to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.' At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Quotes Something inexpressively lovely and wonderful advances through the crystal, nearer, nearer. 1.17 The Mike Wallace Interview - May 18, 1958.1.11 Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (1944).1.5 Music at Night and Other Essays (1931).

Brave new world revisited 1958