Quotes from Aldous Huxley

I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good-good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

Pala is probably the only country in which an animal theologian would have no reason for believing in devils. For animals everywhere else, Satan, quite obviously, is Homo sapiens.

What old, earthy, Panic rite came to extinction here? he wondered.

Amma mÉ™n rahatl?q istÉ™mirÉ™m. MÉ™n Tanr? istÉ™yirÉ™m, poeziya istÉ™yirÉ™m, hÉ™qiqÉ™t istÉ™yirÉ™m, azadl?q istÉ™yirÉ™m, yax??l?q istÉ™yirÉ™m. MÉ™n günah istÉ™yirÉ™m.

Of course it does. Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And 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.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong; the next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

It is a knowledge of the intrinsic significance of every existent. For the artist as for the mescalin taker draperies are living hieroglyphs that stand in some peculiarly expressive way for the unfathomable mystery of pure being.

I am, and wish I wasn't.

E é aí - disse sentenciosamente o director, à guisa de contribuição ao que estava a ser dito - que está o segredo da felicidade e da virtude, gostar daquilo que se é obrigado a fazer. Tal é o fim de todo o condicionamento: fazer amar às pessoas o destino social a que não podem escapar.

And that,' put in the Director sententiously, 'that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Giovani fortunati! — disse il Governatore. — Non è stata risparmiata nessuna fatica per rendere le vostre vite facili dal punto di vista emotivo; per preservarvi, nei limiti del possibile, dal provare qualsiasi emozione.

Porque son los detalles, como todo el mundo lo sabe, los que conducen a la virtud y a la felicidad...

Kendim olmay? ye?lerim, dedi. Surats?z da olsa kendim olay?m. Ne kadar ne?eliyse de ba?ka biri olmak istemem. kidega.com

We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat —and the boat is perpetually sinking.

Neither agreeable nor disagreeable," I answered. "It just is.

This suffocating interior of a dime-store shop was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal contributions to the universe....What it had allowed me to perceive inside was not the Dharma-Body, in images, but my own mind; not Suchness, but a set of symbols - in other words, a homemade substitute for Suchness.

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes; to abolish the love of nature, but not the tendency to consume transport. For of course it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. . .they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.

RzÄ…dzenie to sprawa stoÅ'ka, nie koÅ'ka. RzÄ…dzi siÄ™ przy pomocy mózgu i poÅ›ladków, nie pi??ci. - Aldous Huxley Nowy, wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat

Kitaplara bakarken, Uzaysal iliÅŸkilerde durum ne? diye sordu araÅŸt?rmac?. /.../ Uzay hâlâ oradayd?, ama üstünlüÄŸünü kaybetmiÅŸti. /.../ Yeterince var gibi görünüyor. AraÅŸt?rmac? zaman hakk?nda ne hissettiÄŸimi sorduÄŸunda bütün söyleyebileceÄŸim buydu.

If] you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures... . You do not invent these creatures ... . They live their own lives in complete independence. A man cannot control them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discovered by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meanings re-defined in the context of present tastes and preoccupations.

Strange, mused the Director, as they turned away. Strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's madness. Nowadays, the Controllers won't approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicating of existing games.