Quotes About Huxley

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Unlike the creators of The Matrix and The Truman Show, Huxley doubted the possibility of escape, because he questioned whether there was anybody to make the escape. Since your brain and your "self" are part of the matrix, to escape the matrix you must escape your self. That, however, is a possibility worth exploring. Escaping the narrow definition of self might well become a necessary survival skill in the twenty-first century.

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

Cynical realism—it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation

The fine point of seldom pleasure has been blunted

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

Encendió un cigarrillo para desinfectar la memoria.

If ever I hear again of any lapse from a proper standard of infantile decorum, I shall ask for your transference to a Sub-Centre–preferably to Iceland. Good morning.

There aren't any lions in England, Lenina almost snapped. And even if there were, the Savage added, with sudden contemptuous resentment, people would kill them out of helicopters, I suppose, with poison gas or something.

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

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

Me gusta su espíritu, Mr. Watson. Me gusta muchísimo, de verdad, aunque, como se puede imaginar, lo desapruebo oficialmente.

But its absurd to let yourself get into a state like this. Simply absurd,' she repeated. 'And what about? A man - one man.

That's the spirit I like, said the Director

our world is not the same as Othello's world. . . you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now.