Quotes from Aldous Huxley

When the Individual feels, the community reels.

Cuanto mayores son los talentos de un hombre más grande es su poder de corromper a los demás.

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

No has tenido nunca la sensación de que dentro de ti había algo que sólo esperaba que le dieras una oportunidad para salir al exterior? ¿Una especie de energía adicional que no empleas, como el agua que se desploma por una cascada en lugar de caer a través de las turbinas?

Able," was the verdict of his superiors. "Perhaps," (and they would shake their heads, would significantly lower their voices) "a little too able.

It tasted like one of those herbal concoctions that health-food enthusiasts substitute for tea.

_They_ believe that the Ballot will rob them of their Power and Privileges, whereas _I_ am sure that, by the exercise of even such little Prudence and Cunning as parsimonious Nature has endowed them with, they can with ease maintain themselves in their present pre-eminence. This being so, let the Rabble amuse itself by voting. An Election is no more than a gratuitous Punch and Judy Show, offered by the Rulers in order to distract the attention of the Ruled.

Éste es el precio que debemos pagar por la estabilidad. Hay que elegir entre la felicidad y lo que la gente llamaba arte puro. Nosotros hemos sacrificado el arte puro.

Nothing like modern art for sterilizing the life out of things.

Words are the thread on which we string our experiences.

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

Iadul este incapacitatea de a fi altul decat fiinta pe care o descoperi actionand zilnic in numele tau.

Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain.

Atat lumea in care traim,cat si noi,cei care vietuim in aceasta lume,suntem creatiile stupiditatii si ale miopiei.

But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

In their propaganda today's dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization—the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in ther interests of the Party or the State.

If you're a human being, you'll be seeing something of both, because we've always wanted things both ways.

Meaningless pseudoknowledge has at all times been one of the principal motivators of individual and collective action. And that is one of the reasons why the course of human history has been so tragic and at the same time so strangely grotesque.

which is better—to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent.

In the Brave New World of my prophetic fable technology had advanced far beyond the point it had reached in Hitler's day; consequently the recipients of orders were far less critical than their Nazi counterparts, far more obedient to the order-giving elite.

Individuals of one species are the same in essence or substance. Two human beings differ from one another in matter, but are the same in essence, as being both rational animals. The essential human quality which distinguishes the species Man from all other species is identical in both.

But men are not content merely desire; they like to have a logical or pseudo-logical justification for their desires; they like to believe that when they want something, it is not merely for their own personal advantage, but that their desires are dictated by pure reason, by nature, by God Himself.