Quotes from Aldous Huxley

Ésta es la opinión que tiene de sí misma. No le importa ser como la carne.

Quando nos sentimos como se fôssemos os únicos herdeiros do universo, quando o mar corre em nossas veias [...] e as estrelas são nossas jóias, quando todas as coisas parecem infinitas e sagradas, que motivos poderemos ter para a cobiça ou a soberba, para a fome de poder ou para as formas mais doentias de prazer?

To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this Particular planet.

Unowned, the Fourth Brandenburg had an intensity of beauty, a depth of intrinsic meaning, incomparably greater than anything he had ever found in the same music when it was his private property.

Hay que elegir entre la felicidad y lo que la gente llamaba arte puro. Nosotros hemos sacrificado el arte puro y en su lugar hemos puesto el sensorama y el órgano de perfumes. - Pero no tienen ningún mensaje. + Si, el mensaje consiste en emitir una gran cantidad de sensaciones agradables para el público.

We are forever attempting to convert things into signs for the more intelligible abstractions of our own invention. But in doing so, we rob these things of a great deal of their native thinghood.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. — Aldous Huxley Brave New World (Harper Perennial Modern Classics 1998) Originally published 1932.

Um Estado totalitário verdadeiramente eficiente seria aquele em que os chefes políticos de um Poder Executivo todo-poderoso e seu exército de administradores controlassem uma população de escravos que não tivessem de ser coagidos porque amariam sua servidão.

Occidente sólo permite el uso sin trabas del alcohol y del tabaco. Las demás Puertas químicas en el Muro se califican de tóxicos y quienes las toman sin autorización son Viciosos.

Todos nosotros —prosiguió el Interventor, meditabundo— vivimos en el interior de un frasco. Mas para los Alfas, los frascos, relativamente hablando, son enormes. Nosotros sufriríamos horriblemente si fuésemos confinados en un espacio más estrecho. No se puede verter sucedáneo de champaña de las clases altas en los frascos de las castas bajas.

Ah, that's because you don't know what it's like to have faith. You've no idea how amusing and exciting life becomes when you do believe. All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. It makes life so jolly, you know.

Um Estado totalitário verdadeiramente eficiente seria aquele em que os chefes políticos de um Poder Executivo todo-poderoso e seu exército de administradores controlassem uma população de escravos que não tivessem de ser coagidos porque amariam sua servidão. Fazer com que eles a amem é a tarefa confiada, nos Estados totalitários de hoje, aos ministérios de propaganda, diretores de jornais e professores.

Gastamos actualmente en bebidas y tabaco más de lo que gastamos en educación.

is the havoc which ensues when a man with an idealistic misconception of life born of a cloistered and emotionally deprived upbringing experiences the full, sensual impact of human passion.

In the same way, the reader of a book who happens to be out of tune with the author's prevailing mood will be bored to death by the things that were written with the greatest enthusiasm. Or else, like the far-away correspondent, he may seize on something which for you was not essential, to make it of the core and kernel of the book.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

sententiously.

Every one works for every one else. We can't do without any one…

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves.

You know the formula: m over nought equals infinity, m being any positive number? Well, why not reduce the equation to a simpler form by multiplying both sides by nought? In which case, you have m equals infinity times nought. That is to say that a positive number is the product of zero and infinity. Doesn't that demonstrate the creation of the universe by an infinite power out of nothing?

And what birds! widewinged and beautiful, all those serene thoughts and faiths and emotions that only visit minds that have humbled themselves to quiet.

The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving anyone too much.

Ahora y aquí, muchachos.

Ford's in his flivver,' murmured the D.H.C. 'All's well with the world.