Two great appetites of the soul - the urge to independence and self-determination and the urge to self-transcendence - were fused with, and interpret… - Aldous Huxley

A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.