Aldous Huxley
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything.”
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
“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.”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”