Quotes from Aldous Huxley

God who, in his simple substance, is all everywhere equally, nevertheless, in efficacy, is in rational creatures in another way than in irrational, and in good rational creatures in another way than in the bad. He is in irrational creatures in such a way as not to be comprehended by them; by all rational ones, however, he can be comprehended through knowledge; but only by the good is he to be comprehended also through love.

El cáncer de pulmón, los accidentes de tránsito y los millones de alcohólicos miserables y transmisores de miseria son hechos todavía más ciertos de lo que era en tiempos de Dante el hecho del Infierno.

Organized and balanced disunity is the necessary condition of liberty.

Uno debe poder sentirse herido y trastornado; de lo contrario, no puede pensar frases realmente buenas, penetrantes como los rayos X.

Having the freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

Simmons ap?ru deodat? în bibliotec?, ducînd o tav?. De o vîrst? mijlocie, avea o atitudine demn?, de om de stat, obligat s?-È™i controleze vorbele È™i nervii, s? nu declare niciodat? ce gîndeÈ™te sincer, È™i s? respecte aparenÈ›ele, atitudine cum se putea întîlni la diplomaÈ›i, la membrii familiilor regale, la înalÈ›ii funcÈ›ionari guvernamentali È™i la majordomi.

Pero todos ellos son hechos remotos e insustanciales al lado del hecho próximo y muy sentido del ansia, aquí, ahora, de un alivio, de un sedante, de un trago o un cigarrillo.

El servicio había empezado. Las tabletas de soma consagradas fueron colocadas en el centro de la mesa. La copa del amor llena de soma en forma de helado de fresa pasó de mano en mano, con la fórmula: «Bebo por mi aniquilación».

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of

The spirit was a libertine, but the flesh and its affections were chaste.

In all psychophysical skills we have this curious fact of the law of reversed effort: the harder we try, the worse we do the thing.

La belleza ejerce una atracción, y nosotros no queremos que la gente se sienta atraída por cosas antiguas. Queremos que les gusten las nuevas.

Nunca tente compartilhar suas alegrias. As pessoas são solidárias na dor, mas não no prazer.

Una droga así tiene que ser poderosa en muy pequeñas dosis y sintetizable.

Their Ethiop wives—sleek wineskins of black silk, Jellied and huge from drinking asses' milk Through years of tropical idleness, to pray For offspring (whom he ever sent away With prayers unanswered, lest their ebon race Might breed and blacken the earth's comely face).

Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.

They had become like young kittens after a dose of cat–nip. He himself felt a certain kittenishness sporting within him; but it was, like all his emotions, rather a theoretical feeling; it did not overmasteringly seek to express itself in a practical demonstration of kittenishness.

Too much tension is a disease; but so is too little. There are certain occasions when we ought to be tense, when an excess of tranquility (and especially of tranquility imposed from the outside, by a chemical) is entirely inappropriate.

Ah, that's because you don't know what it's like to have faith. You've no idea how amusing and exciting life becomes when you do believe. All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. It makes life so jolly, you know.

For the same reason as we don't give them Othello: they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now.' 'But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world

Todo condicionamiento tiende a esto: a lograr que la gente ame su inevitable destino social

Para dentro a Fenomenologia do Espírito. Para fora o pão de milho.

No, not synthetic starch and cotton-waste flour-substitute,' he has insisted. 'Even though it is more nourishing.' But when it came to pan-glandular biscuits and vitaminized beef-surrogate, he had not been able to resist the shopman's persuasion. Looking at the tins now, he bitterly reproached himself for his weakness.

If you want nature to treat you well, you must treat nature well. If you start destroying nature, nature will destroy you, and this basic moral precept is fundamental in our present knowledge of ecology and conservation. What we know now about ecology points to the fact that nature exists in the most delicate balance, and that anything which tends to upset the balance will produce consequences of the most unexpected character and often of the most disastrous character.