More Quotes by Aldous Huxley
The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.