Aldous Huxley

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

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

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

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.

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

A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.