Quotes from Aldous Huxley

Everybody should stick to the insanity that God has seen fit to curse him with.

Do you know what it's like, he asked at length, to feel that nothing is quite real -- including yourself? Susila nodded. It sometimes happens when one's just on the point of discovering that everything, including oneself, is much more real than one ever imagined. It's like shifting gears: you have to go into neutral before you change into high.

If you allowed yourselves to think of God, you wouldn't allow yourselves to be degraded by pleasant vices. You'd have a reason for bearing things patiently, for doing things with courage..

The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't with a more riotous appetite.

Twenty-two years eight months and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha- Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis - the first case for over half a century. Sighing, Lenina went on with her work.

she wasn't a real savage, had been hatched out of a bottle and conditioned like any one else:

Experience is not what happens to you its what you do with what happens to you.

Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.

Christlike in my behavior Like any good believer I imitate the Savior And cultivate a beaver

Apart from sewerage systems and synthetic vitamins, you don't seem to do anything at all about prevention. And yet you've got a proverb: prevention is better than cure. But cure, said Will, is so much more dramatic than prevention.

Poate p?rea ciudat, dar cele mai apropiate de realitate sunt întotdeauna operele literare considerate a fi cel mai puÅ£in adev?rate. S-ar putea ca realitatea în totalitatea ei s? fie întotdeauna mult prea puÅ£in demn? de a fi înregistrat?, prea lipsit? de sens sau prea oribil? pentru a r?mâne neliteraturizat?.

Viata e insa atat de banala,incat literatura trebuie sa se ocupe de lucrurile care ies din comun.

They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.

Incidental, m-am aflat ÅŸi eu în prim?var? foarte aproape de judecata final?. De fapt, nici nu aÅŸ mai fi aici dac? n-ar fi existat penicilina. Pneumonia, prietena b?trâneÅ£ii. Ast?zi medicina te învie ca s? poÅ£i tr?i bucurându-te de arterioscleroz? sau de cancerul prostatei. AÅŸa c?, precum vezi, totul este cu des?vârÅŸire postum. Cu excepÅ£ia mea, sunt morÅ£i cu toÅ£ii iar eu tr?iesc din timp împrumutat.

If only good intentions were enough to make good poetry!

Casi todos desean la paz y la libertad, pero son muy pocos los que tienen gran entusiasmo por las ideas, sentimientos y actos que hacen factibles esos ideales. Inversamente

Avem intotdeauna tendinta sa atribuim propriile noastre defecte si celorlalti.

What we know depends also on what, as moral beings, we choose to make ourselves.

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.

Las prímulas y los paisajes, explicó, tienen un grave defecto: son gratuitos. El amor a la Naturaleza no da quehacer a las fábricas.

Were there any crimes or tragedies in the family? Let me see, Henry Wimbush rubbed his chin thoughtfully. I can only think of two suicides, one violent death, four or perhaps five broken hearts, and half a dozen little blots on the scutcheon in the way of misalliances, seductions, natural children, and the like. No, on the whole, it's a placid and uneventful record.

We float in language like icebergs – four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic experience.

Podría haber y, a mi juicio, debería haber leyes que impidieran a los candidatos, no solamente gastar más que determinada cantidad en sus campañas electorales, sino también recurrir a esa especie de propaganda antirracional que convierte en disparate todo el procedimiento democrático.