Quotes from Aldous Huxley

But one does not marry a set of virtues and talents; one marries an individual human being.

The gravitation of sin to sorrow is as certain as that of the earth to the sun...

Ama ba?ka bir ?ekilde mutlu olmak istemez miydin, Lenina? Ba?kalar? gibi de?il, kendi istedi?in gibi.

Fortunate boys! 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.

Somos para los dioses como moscas en manos de chiquillos caprichosos; nos matan como en un juego.

Lenina uykuda öÄŸretilmiÅŸ parlak bilgeliÄŸini . . .

All things, to all things perfectly indifferent, perfectly work together in discord for a Good beyond good, for a Being more timeless in transience, more eternal in its dwindling than God there in heaven.

Distance reminds us that there's a lot more to the universe than just people. It reminds us that there are mental spaces inside our skulls as enormous as the spaces out there.

Bedelsiz hiçbir ÅŸey yoktur. MutluluÄŸun bedelinin ödenmesi gerekir. Siz bu bedeli ödüyorsunuz Bay Watson; ödüyorsunuz, çünkü güzellikle fazla ilgileniyorsunuz. Ben de gerçekle fazla ilgilenmiÅŸtim; ben de bedelini ödedim.

I thought we'd be more . . . More together here -- with nothing but the sea and the moon. More together than in that crowd, or even in my room. Don't you understand that?

God as a sense of warmth about the heart, God as exultation, God as tears in the eyes, God as a rush of power or thought—that was all right. But God as truth, God as 2 + 2 = 4—that wasn't so clearly all right.

Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

Just to give you a general idea,' he would explain to them. For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently - though as little of one, of they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved

The legs, for example of that chair – how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes – or was it several centuries? – not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them – or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for 'I' was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were 'they') being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

Ah, if only one had work of one's own, proper work, decent work—not forced upon one by the griping of one's belly!

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. That's another reason why we're so chary of applying new inventions. Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes, even science.

este es el secreto de la felicidad y la virtud: amar lo que uno tiene que hacer. Todo condicionamiento se dirige a lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social

How can one be violent about the sort of things one's expected to write about? Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly_they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

Si la mayoría de nosotros permanecemos ignorantes de nosotros mismos, es porque el autoconocimiento es doloroso y preferimos los placeres de la ilusión

Llorar sobre los errores literarios de veinte años atrás, intentar enmendar una obra fallida para darle la perfección que no logró en su primera ejecución, perder los años de la madurez en el intento de corregir los pecados artísticos cometidos y legados por esta persona ajena que fue uno mismo en la juventud, todo ello, sin duda, es vano y futil.

Cheltuim ast?zi cu mult mai mult pentru b?utur? ÅŸi fumat decât cheltuim pentru edu- caÅ£ie. Åži nu e de mirare. Aproape în fiecare dintre noi, aproape tot timpul, exist? pornirea de a fugi de sine ÅŸi de ceea ce ne înconjoar?.

Unitive knowledge of God is possible only to those who 'have ceased to cherish opinions' even opinions that are as true as it is possible for verbalized abstractions to be.

Tras aquellas semanas de ocio en Londres, durante las cuales, cuando deseaba algo le bastaba pulsar un botón o girar una manija, fue para él una delicia hacer algo que exigía habilidad y paciencia.