I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
Aldous HuxleyThere is no bad day that canโt be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
Aldous HuxleyEvery gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.
Aldous HuxleyWhatโs the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
Aldous HuxleyUnder the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.
Aldous Huxley