Aldous Huxley Quotes
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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,' said Jefferson, 'it expects what never was and never will be.'
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You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
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A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.
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When will you women understand that one isn’t insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won’t allow one to have.