Quotes from Aldous Huxley

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy man left.

I am I, and wish I wasn't.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.

Una de las principales funciones de nuestros amigos estriba en sufrir (en formas más suaves y simbólicas) los castigos que querríamos infligir, y no podemos, a nuestros enemigos.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

The power to respond to reason and truth exists in all of us. But so, unfortunately, does the tendency to respond to unrea­son and falsehood -- particularly in those cases where the falsehood evokes some enjoyable emotion, or where the appeal to unreason strikes some answering chord in the primitive, subhuman depths of our being.

Was and will make me ill, I take a gramme and only am. (Lenina)

Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by ignoring the uniqueness of particular events, concentrating on what they have in common and finally abstracting some kind of "law," in terms of which they make sense and can be effectively dealt with.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

What you need is a gramme of soma." "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

And it's what you never will write, said the Controller. Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

Una verdad sin interés puede ser eclipsada por una falsedad emocionante.

For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, makes for virtues and happiness;generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

You can't be a good economist unless you're also a good psychologist. Or a good engineer without being the right kind of metaphysician.

A people's theology reflects the state of it's children's bottoms.

Fui y seré me ponen triste ...; tomo un gramo (de soma) y sólo soy.

Those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley's can write Prometheus Unbound. The deliberate forger has little chance with his contemporaries and none at all with posterity.

Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus...

He wished to ignore all but here and now, to be as though he had only just entered the world and were destined to be eternal. Bus his memory survived, even though he never deliberately made use of it; and though the things which had been Isabels were destoryed, he could not guard against chance reminders. Chance had found many gaps in his defenses this morning.

Beetles, black beetles' – his father had a really passionate feeling about the clergy. Mumbo-jumbery was another of his favourite words. An atheist and an anti-clerical of the strict old school he was.