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

More from Aldous Huxley

• Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ration to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
• Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
• Accept loss forever
• A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Essays, "Character," 1844