Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. – Aldous Huxley
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. – Aldous Huxley
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. – Aldous Huxley
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. – Aldous Huxley
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Virginibus Puerisque II,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881