Aldous Huxley Quotes

People owe progress to the dissatisfied.

The bourgeois is the perfect domesticated human animal.

Happiness is never grand.

We participate in a tragedy; in a comedy we only watch.

Habit turns sumptuous pleasures into daily necessities.

Every generation thinks it can be smarter than the previous one.

I want to know what passion is -Lenina heard from his lips-. I want to feel something strongly.

Technological progress has only provided us with more efficient means to go backwards.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Words can be like X-rays if used properly: they pass through everything. You read them and they pierce you. This is one of the things I try to teach my students: to write in a penetrating manner.

I wanted to change the world. But I have discovered that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The one who wants to do good to the human race always ends up in universal intimidation.