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

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder." Aldous Huxley

"To be a fool at the right time is also an art." Aldous Huxley

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner." 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

"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion." Aldous Huxley

"As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate." 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