Aldous Huxley

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. ”

Every man's memory is his private literature. ”

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. ”