Aldous Huxley

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies of mind and body, and all trying (or becoming compelled) to squeeze their biological diversities into the uniformity of some cultural mold.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.

We float in language like icebergs _ four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic experience.

Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know.

Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep _

Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.

Stability,_ insisted the Controller, __tability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.