More Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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.
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
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.
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
The more stitches, the less riches.
The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.