Aldous Huxley

"The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information." Aldous Huxley

"All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant." Aldous Huxley

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." Aldous Huxley

"The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge." Aldous Huxley

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." Aldous Huxley

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude." Aldous Huxley

"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society." Aldous Huxley

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." Aldous Huxley

"Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice." Aldous Huxley

"Experience teaches only the teachable." Aldous Huxley

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." Aldous Huxley

"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know." Aldous Huxley

"Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well." Aldous Huxley

"Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity." Aldous Huxley