Quotes from Aldous Huxley

Uno puede tomarse unas vacaciones de la realidad siempre que se le antoje, y volver de las mismas sin siquiera un dolor de cabeza o una mitología

Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift.

But the people we don't know are only characters in the human comedy. We are the tragedians.

Da, e lucru îngrozitor s? cazi în mâinile r?ului reîncarnat. - Atunci, întreab? doctorul Poole, de ce continuaÈ›i s?-L veneraÈ›i? - De ce arunci mâncare unui tigru care mâr?ie?Ca s? câÈ™tigi un moment de respiro. Ca s? amâni oroarea inevitabilului, fie È™i pentru câteva minute. ?i pe P?mânt e la fel ca-n Iad - dar cel puÈ›in eÈ™ti tot pe P?mânt.

Experience teaches only the teachable

Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.

Las burlas le hacían sentirse como un forastero; y, sintiéndose como un forastero, se comportaba como tal.

Para obtener la felicidad debimos renunciar a la verdad y a la belleza.

Pero yo no quiero la comodidad. Yo quiero a Dios, quiero la poesía, quero el verdadero riesgo, quiero la libertad, quiero la bondad. Quiero el pecado. -En resumen, (...), usted reclama el derecho a ser desgraciado.

He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy – to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.

Ah, revenge, revenge. In the better world of the imagination it was possible to get one's own back. What fiendish vendettas were there carried to successful ends!

Forse la terra è l'inferno di un altro pianeta.

Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fufilment?

Imaginen la locura que representa permitir que la gente se entregue a juegos complicados que en nada aumentan el consumo. Pura locura. Actualmente los Interventores no aprueban ningún nuevo juego, a menos que pueda demostrarse que exige cuando menos tantos aparatos como el más complicado de los juegos ya existentes. -Se interrumpió espontáneamente-. He aquí un grupito encantador -dijo, señalando

When the individual feels, the community reels, Lenina pronounced. Well, why shouldn't it reel a bit?

It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science.

Los que se sienten despreciados procuran mostrarse despectivos.

Love makes you accept the world; it puts an end to criticism.

The sound-track roll was unwinding itself in Synthetic Anti-Riot Speech Number Two

For the act of criticizing heightened his sense of importance, made him feel larger.

Happiness is a hard master – particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.

Crecerán con lo que los psicólogos solían llamar un odio instintivo hacia los libros y las flores. Reflejos condicionados definitivamente. Estarán a salvo de los libros y de la botánica para toda su vida. -El director se volvió hacia las enfermeras-. Llévenselos

If you give experience a chance, if you're prepared to go along with it, the results are incomparably more therapeutic and transforming.