Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. – Aldous Huxley
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. – Aldous Huxley
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. – Aldous Huxley
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man