Quotes from Aldous Huxley

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.

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

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.