Aldous Huxley II

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.