Quotes from Aldous Huxley

In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything but words and notions.

Seguí alí, y sin embargo no estaba allí; estaba siempre lejos, infinitamente lejos, de vacaciones; de vacaciones en algún otro mundo, donde la música de la radio era un laberinto de sonoros colores, un laberinto resbaladizo, palpitante que guiaba (y por qué hermosos e inevitables rodeos) a un brillante centro de certidumbre absoluta...

La población óptima -dijo Mustafá Monds- es la que se parece a los icebergs: ocho novenas partes por debajo de la línea de flotación, y una novena parte por encima. -¿Y son felices los que se encuentran por debajo de la línea de flotación? -Más felices que los que se encuentran por encima de ella.

All too many Christians have behaved as though the devil were a first principle, on the same footing as god. They have paid more attention to evil and the problem of its eradication than to good and the methods by which individual goodness may be deepened, and the sum of goodness increased.

Besides, we have our stability to think of. We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. That's another reason why we're so chary of applying new inventions. Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes, even science.

And now it was a dozen hornbills hopping, like fragments of a disordered imagination, through a cloud of orchids.

Behave like an old man and your body will function like an old man's

Do you like music?" Dr. Robert asked. "More than most things." "And what, may I ask, does Mozart's G-Minor Quintet refer to? Does it refer to Allah? Or Tao? Or the second person of the Trinity? Or the Atman-Brahman?" Will laughed. "Let's hope not.

We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusions of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated.

Greedy contemplatives want to possess themselves of the light without bothering about compassion.

O my God, how does it happen in this poor old world that Thou art so great and yet nobody finds Thee, that Thou callest so loudly and nobody hears Thee, that Thou art so near and nobody feels Thee, that Thou givest Thyself to everybody and nobody knows Thy name? Men flee from Thee and say they cannot find Thee; they turn their backs and say they cannot see Thee; they stop their ears and say they cannot hear Thee. Hans Denk

Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational

Living's much more difficult than Sanskrit or chemistry or economics.

he was breathing Lenina's perfume, filling his lungs with her essential being. His heart beat wildly; for a moment he was almost faint.

Bu adam bir düÅŸünürdü,eÄŸer düÅŸünürün anlam?n? biliyorsan?z. VahÅŸi haz?rcevap bir biçimde Yeryüzü ve gökyüzündeki ÅŸeylerden daha az?n? hayal eden biri. dedi.

But the power problem has its roots in anatomy and biochemistry and temperament. Power has to be curbed on the legal and political levels; that's obvious. But it's also obvious that there must be prevention on the individual level. On the level of instinct and emotion, on the level of the glands and the viscera, the muscles and the blood. If I can ever find the time, I'd like to write a little book on human physiology in relation to ethics, religion, politics and law.

Todos tendemos a exagerar el valor de lo que por casualidad nos pertenece.

Distance reminds us that there's a lot more to the universe than just people—that there's even a lot more to people than just people. It reminds us that there are mental spaces inside our skulls as enormous as the spaces out there. The experience of distance, of inner distance and outer distance, of distance in time and distance in space—it's the first and fundamental religious experience.

O que nos leva por fim - continuou o Sr. Foster - a deixar o domínio da simples imitação servil da natureza para entrar no mundo mais interessante da invenção humana

Turning to God without turning from self' - the formula is absurdly simple; and yet, simple as it is, it explains all the follies and iniquities committed in the name of religion.

Don't think of him. I can't help it. Take soma then. I do. Well, go on. But in the intervals I still like him. I shall always like him.

Ben keyif aram?yorum, Tanr?'y? istiyorum,ÅŸiir istiyorum,gerçek tehlike istiyorum,özgürlük istiyorum,iyilik istiyorum. Günah istiyorum. Asl?nda, dedi Mustafa Mond, siz mutsuz olma hakk?n? istiyorsunuz.

Myslel jsem sami, abychom si mohli pohovoÃ…â"¢it," zamumlal. "PohovoÃ…â"¢it - a o ?em?" Procházet a hovoÃ…â"¢it - opravdu, velmi podivný zp?sob, jak strávit odpoledne.

In the end she persuaded him to swallow fou tablets of soma. Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.