Aldous Huxley Quotes About Brave New World

Quotes about: Brave New World

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• 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

  Happiness, Struggle, Passion

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Brave New World, Thinking

• A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Army, Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Guilt, Rolling

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• ...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Growing Up, Future

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Forgiveness, Time

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Freedom, Brave New World, Views

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Views, Silence

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Hipster, Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Tasks, Addresses

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• No social stability without individual stability.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Individual, Social

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, Brave New World, Joy

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

• Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Brave New World, Two

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

  Aldous Huxley

  Fall, Brave New World, Giving

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

• What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Bombs, Anthrax

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

• What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Men, Brave New World John

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Holiday, Reality, Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Brave New World, Culture

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Eight, Water

  Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

• Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Looks, Misery

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Destiny, People

• 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, Punishment, Enemy

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

• We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Masters, Supreme

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, Brave New World, Destiny

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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