“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

— Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, 1937

About Aldous Huxley

1894 – 1963

English writer, author of "Brave New World".

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

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.”

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.”

“Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning.”