“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

— Aldous Huxley

Proper Studies (1927)

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Aldous Huxley 290

English writer 1894–1963

R. J. Hollingdale (1930–2001) British Author

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Nietzsche (1965, 1999)

“There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 12

“The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.”

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States

1790s, Farewell Address (1796)
Context: The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.