Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Quotes

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

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

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

No social stability without individual stability.

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

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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

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.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Pain was a fascinating horror

If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible.

What fun it would be, " he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Shut lips, sleeping faces, Every stopped machine, The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice, Weep (loudly or low), Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know.

For I am you and you are I.

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.

There was something called Christianity.

Every one belongs to every one else.

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

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

Nature is powerless to put asunder.

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.

Every change is a menace to stability.

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

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

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

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

Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

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

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

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…