Quotes from Aldous Huxley

Librarse de todo lo desagradable en lugar de aprender a soportarlo. Si es más noble soportar en el alma las pedradas o las flechas de la mala fortuna, o bien alzarse en armas contra un piélago de pesares y acabar con ellos enfrentándose a los mismos... Pero ustedes no hacen ni una cosa ni otra. Ni soportan ni resisten. Se limitan a abolir las pedradas y las flechas. Es demasiado fácil.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

An education for freedom (and for the love and intelli­gence which are at once the conditions and the results of freedom) must be, among other things, an educa­tion in the proper uses of language.

This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all mortifications to achieve a 'holy indifference' to the temporal success or failure of the cause to which one has devoted one's best energies. If it triumphs, well and good; and if it meets defeat, that also is well and good, if only in ways that, to a limited and timebound mind, are here and now entirely incomprehensible.

Különben is, az ember legjobb nyugalma az alvás, s ezt gyakran kijátszod; de erÅ'sen félsz a haláltól, mely semmi több. Nem több, mint alvás. Aludni. Álmodni tán.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. (p.207)

For the totalitarian of our more enlightened century there is no soul and no creator; there is merely a lump of physiological raw material moulded by conditioned reflexes and social pressures into what, by courtesy, is still called a human being.

Rije?i mogu djelovati poput rendgenskih zraka ako se ispravno koriste - prodrijeti kroz bilo što. Pro?itaš, a one prodru kroz tebe.

Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

Mary looked at the picture for some time without saying anything. Indeed, she didn't know what to say; she was taken aback, she was at a loss. She had expected a cubist masterpiece, and here was a picture of a man and a horse, not only recognisable as such, but even aggressively in drawing.

Naša nas taština tjera da preuveli?avamo ljudski život.

The fact that extremely diversified phenomena are explained in terms of laws having the same form or pattern gives us information... about the structure of the various levels of reality with which the mind deals; for presumably the pattern of a hypothesis must have some correspondence, if it works, with the pattern of the phenomena which it explains.

Linda was dying in company - in company and with all modern conveniences.

Da se napiše loša knjiga, treba isto toliko truda kao i da se napiše dobra.

Did you ever feel,' he asked slowly, 'as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it the chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you could be using if you knew how?

Grief and remorse, compassion and duty - all were forgotten now and, as it were, absorbed into an intense overpowering hatred of these less than human monsters. 'Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?' Rage was making him fluent; the words came easily, in a rush. 'Don't you?' he repeated, but got no answer to his question.

Being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Infant-conditioning and narco-hypnosis are far more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

There was a little hill behind the house. You climbed it, and there was the whole sky from horizon to horizon. A hundred and eighty degrees of brute inexplicable mystery. It was a good place for just sitting and saying nothing.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted.

Ali na svu sre?u ljudi ne ostavljaju dubljeg traga u meni. Samo kratkotrajan dojam, kao što brod u vodi ostavlja brazdu. Ali voda se opet sastavi.

Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began.

When the phenomenal ego transcends itself, the essential Self is free to realize, in terms of a finite consciousness, the fact of its own eternity, together with the correlative fact that every particular in the world of experience partakes of the timeless and the infinite. This is liberation, this is enlightenment, this is the beatific vision, in which all things are perceived as they are "in themselves" and not in relation to a craving and abhorring ego.

Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?