The Whole World a Blur but You are Standing

It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes-- make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.

-Aldous Huxley in Brave New World