Brave New World Quotes - Page 3

• Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Falling In Love, Smart, Thinking

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Holiday, Reality, People

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

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• The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.

  Angela Carter

  Country, Invisible, Unexplored

  Angela Carter (1993). “American ghosts & old world wonders”, Vintage

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Bombs, Anthrax, Popping

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

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• 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”

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• 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”

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• The more stitches, the less riches.

  Aldous Huxley

  Stitches, Riches, Mending

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

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• 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”

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• 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

  Punishment, Enemy, Suffering

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

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• Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

  Aldous Huxley

  Kissing, Drug, Hug

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

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• When the individual feels, the community reels.

  Aldous Huxley

  Community, Individual, Stability

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

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• The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Law, People

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

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Brave New World John, Brave New World Technology

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

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• We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

  Linda Chavez

  Peace, Price Tag, Attributes

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• The Obama campaign is one of the greatest examples of what is possible in the brave new world of 21st Century marketing. They did a masterful job of connecting with minds, personalizing messages, refining old and new media, sending clear messages, and providing the feedback that enabled them to respond to the messages they heard.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Jobs, Business, Media

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• ‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, People, Pay

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Guilt, Rolling, Way

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

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• All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Unhappy, Syphilis, Savages

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

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• But every one belongs to every one else

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World John, Brave New World Technology, Brave New World Character

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

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• Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.

  David James Duncan

  Religious, Self, Political

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.320, Dial Press

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