Aldous Huxley

"When the sun rises, it rises for everyone." Aldous Huxley

"If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb." Aldous Huxley

"In real life there is no such person as the average man." Aldous Huxley

"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention." Aldous Huxley

"If you don't gamble, you'll never win." Aldous Huxley

"We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence." Aldous Huxley

"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing." Aldous Huxley

"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface ." Aldous Huxley

"The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own." Aldous Huxley

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency." Aldous Huxley

"One seventh of your life is spent on Monday." Aldous Huxley

"Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced." Aldous Huxley