Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.'

the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.

'But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.'

Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate.