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Brave New World QUOTES

Brave New World QUOTES

1 " He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’
‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.
‘Quite so… "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

2 " Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

3 " All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

4 " Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations 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. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

5 " I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example... "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

6 " ... science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

7 " One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

8 " And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

9 " What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning? "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

10 " Every change is a menace to stability. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

11 " One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

12 " Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

13 " Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

14 " A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

15 " Nature is powerless to put asunder. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

16 " Pain was a fascinating horror "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

17 " I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

18 " ...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.... "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

19 " And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears–that's what soma is. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

20 " He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knew
it, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delirium
of his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World