Huxley

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    The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour’s wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence—that sort of innocence. With the result that we’re now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)