The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-int… - Aldous Huxley

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

These effects of mescalin are the sort of effects you could expect to follow the administration of a drug having the power to impair the efficiency of the cerebral reducing valve. When the brain runs out of sugar, the undernourished ego grows weak, can't be bothered to undertake the necessary chores, and loses all interest in those spatial and temporal relationships which mean so much to an organism bent on getting on in the world. As Mind at Large seeps past the no longer watertight valve, all kinds of biologically useless things start to happen. ... Other persons discover a world of visionary beauty. To others again is revealed the glory, the infinite value and meaningfulness of naked existence, of the given, unconceptualized event.