Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Context: The emotional engineer Helmholtz tells Bernard he wants to write something that matters.
Source: Chapter 4
Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears—that’s what…
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that’s philosophy. People believe in God because they’ve been…
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none…
That is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.