I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.
Aldous HuxleyReality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
Aldous HuxleyThe optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.
Aldous HuxleyThis really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
Aldous HuxleyThe goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
Aldous HuxleyEvery notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.
Aldous Huxley