Aldous Huxley

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

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.