Aldous Huxley

The more you know, the more you see.

The highest and most important things in life are not to be found in the realm of the senses.

To be able to make a good joke, one must be able to think seriously.

We are not always what we seem, and there is a great deal of difference between what we are and what we think we are.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The human mind is a device for measuring the universe.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer a little.

A man's got to be a man. And a woman's got to be a woman.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

The end justifies the means. But what if the means are so horrible that they corrupt the end?

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

The people who are most sure about everything are the least likely to know anything.

Orthodoxy is the graveyard of intelligence.

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

The more powerful the means of communication, the easier it is to control public opinion.

One of the great attractions of science is that it enables you to talk about facts without having to talk about values.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would in fact be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would be a system of slavery where, thanks to consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitude.