Quotes from Aldous Huxley

Todo pájaro que aprenda a organizarse una buena vida sin necesidad de usar sus alas pronto renunciará al privilegio del vuelo y permanecerá por siempre en tierra. Algo parecido pasa con los seres humanos. Si se les procura con regularidad y abundancia el pan tres veces al día, muchos de ellos se contentarán con vivir de pan únicamente o, al menos, de pan y circo únicamente.

He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.

The proper study of mankind is books. –

four-seater sporticopter. They'd be late for dinner if he didn't come soon.

Los sentimientos proliferan en el intervalo que media entre el deseo y su realización

four-seater sporticopter. They'd be late for dinner if he didn't come soon. "We'll give him five more minutes," said Helmholtz. "If he doesn't turn up by then we'll…" The ringing of the telephone bell interrupted him. He picked up the receiver. "Hullo. Speaking." Then, after a long interval of listening

After an outburst, she would settle down and try to love him as reasonably as she could, making the best of his kindness, his rather detached and separate passion, his occasional and laborious essays at emotional intimacy, and finally his intelligence - that quick, comprehensive, ubiquitous intelligence that could understand everything, including emotions it could not feel and the instincts it took care not to be moved by.

La felicità effettiva sembra sempre molto squallida in confronto ai grandi compensi che la miseria trova. E si capisce anche che la stabilità non è neppure emozionante come l'instabilità. E l'essere contenti non ha nulla di affascinante al paragone di una buona lotta contro la sfortuna, nulla del pittoresco di una lotta contro la tentazione, o di una fatale sconfitta a causa della passione o del dubbio. La felicità non è mai grandiosa.

I'm sorry I tried to be unpleasant, he said at last.

La mayoría de los tomadores de mescalina experimentan únicamente la parte celestial de la esquizofrenia. La droga sólo procura infierno y purgatorio a quienes han padecido recientemente una ictericia o son víctimas de depresiones periódicas o ansiedad crónica.

La mayoría de los hombres y las mujeres llevan vidas tan pobres y limitadas en el mejor, que el afán de escapar, el ansia de trascender de sí mismo aunque sólo sea por breves momentos es, y ha sido siempre, uno de los principales apetitos del alma

Whatever one says on the air is bound to be misunderstood; for people take from the heard or printed discourse that which they are predisposed to hear or read, not what is there- all that TV can do is to increase the number of misunderstanders by many thousandfold – and at the same time to increase the range of misunderstanding by providing no objective text to which the voluntarily ignorant can be made to refer.

Exultante ante el pensamiento de que se hallaba solo, enzarzado en una lucha heroica contra el orden de las cosas; animado por la embriagadora conciencia de su significación e importancia individual.

Threequarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

ObiÈ™nuinÈ›a naÈ™te dispreÈ›, iar supravieÈ›uirea pretinde nu atât gesturi imperioase, cât mai degrab? lente, plicticoase È™i chinuitoare. Lumea din afar? este ceea ce ne întâmpin? la trezire, în fiecare diminea?? a vieÈ›ii noastre, nu-i aÈ™a? Locul în care, vrând-nevrând, trebuie s? încerc?m s? obÈ›inem cele necesare traiului. În lumea interioar? nu exist? nici munc?, nici monotonie.

The lizards died of having too much body and too little head,' said Rampion in explanation.'so at least the scientists are never tired of telling us. Physical size is a handicap after a certain point. But what about mental size? These fools seem to forget that they're just as top-heavy and clumsy and disproportioned as any diplodocus. Sacrificing physical life and affective life to mental life. What do they imagine's going to happen?

The work of a hundred years destroyed in a single night. And yet the fact remained - the fact of the ending of sorrow as well as the fact of sorrow.

la alambrada seguía ininterrumpidamente la línea recta, el símbolo geométrico del propósito humano triunfante.

The truth is, of course, that we are all organically related to God, to Nature and to our fellow-men. If every human being were constantly and consciously in a proper relationship with his divine, natural and social environments there would be only so much suffering as Creation makes inevitable.

Alcohol is one of the oldest and certainly the most widely used of all consciousness-changing drugs. Unfortunately, it is a rather inefficient and, at the same time, a rather dangerous drug.

The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma.

La literatura de la experiencia religiosa abunda en referencias a aflicciones y terrores que abruman a quienes se han visto, demasiado bruscamente, ante alguna manifestación del Mysterium tremendum

Mewling and puking

Según estas ideas, la función del cerebro, el sistema nervioso y los órganos sensoriales es principalmente eliminativa, no productiva.