Quotes from Aldous Huxley

It was the sort of idea that might easily recondition 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.

Did you ever feel...as though you had something inside you that as only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using--you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

Pero el hombre que regresa por la Puerta en el Muro ya no será nunca el mismo que salió por ella. Será más instruido y menos engreído, estará más contento y menos satisfecho de sí mismo, reconocerá su ignorancia más humildemente, pero, al mismo tiempo

In politics, the near future is likely to be closer to George Orwell's 1984 than to Brave New World.

Civilización es esterilización

they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable? "Of

El liberalismo, desde luego, murió de ántrax

Make for virtue and happiness, generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

being of the knower, there is a corresponding

I suppose Epsilons don't really mind being Epsilons,' she said aloud. 'Of course they don't. How can they? They don't know what it's like being anything else. We'd mind, of course. But then we've been differently conditioned.

The optimum population,' said Mustapha Mond, 'is modelled on the iceberg-eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Sto powtórzeÅ" przez trzy noce tygodniowo w ciÄ…gu czterech lat, pomyÅ›laÅ' Bernard Marks, fachowiec od hipnopedii. Sze??dziesiÄ…t dwa tysiÄ…ce czterysta powtórzeÅ" przeradza siÄ™ w jedna prawdÄ™. Idioci! - Bernard Marks, Nowy, wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat Aldous Huxley

Great is the truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects, by lowering what Mr Churchill calls an 'iron curtain' between the masses and such facts or arguments as the local political bosses regard as undesirable, totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals.

I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

the worthlessness of friends who could be turned upon so slight a provocation into persecuting enemies.

All philosophies and all religions—what are they but spiritual Tubes bored through the universe! Through these narrow tunnels, where all is recognisably human, one travels comfortable and secure, contriving to forget that all round and below and above them stretches the blind mass of earth, endless and unexplored.

an agony of humiliated indecision

Lo que importaba era más la felicidad que la verdad y la belleza.

It was only in the bosoms of Mrs. Nobes, Mrs. Cayman, and Mrs. Mandragore that hatred still reigned undiminished. Being ladies and old-fashioned, they had drunk almost no wine.

The murkiest den, the most opportune place" (the voice of conscience thundered poetically), "the strongest suggestion our worser genius can, shall never melt mine honour into lust. Never, never!" he resolved.

Daimi bir yokolu?, ayn? zamanda saf bir varolu?tur.

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books. If one is different, one is bound to be lonely. Beauty is attractive and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

A gramme is better than a damn.