And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

— Aldous Huxley

And the two essential and indispensable things are first intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together.

— Aldous Huxley

And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know

— Aldous Huxley

An old codger rampant and still learning.

— Aldous Huxley

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

— Aldous Huxley

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

— Aldous Huxley

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

— Aldous Huxley

As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I have no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore.

— Aldous Huxley

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.

— Aldous Huxley

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

— Aldous Huxley