Aldous Huxley

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the…

— Aldous Huxley

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I…

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“Indeed, a faint hypnopædic prejudice in favour of size was universal. Hence the laughter of the women to whom he made proposals,…

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“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet…

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“This suffocating interior of a dime-store shop was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal…

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That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the…

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“Meanwhile there is still some freedom left in the world. Many young people, it is true, do not seem to value freedom.…

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“Defending democracy" also sounds fine; but to defend democracy by military means, one must be militarily efficient and one cannot become militarily…

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I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he…

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“„Hitler“, wrote Herman Rauschning in 1939, „ has a deep respect for the Catholic church and the Jesuit order, not because of…

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“They pretended they were trying to dissuade people from vice by enumerating its horrors. But they were really only making it more…

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“You're assuming,' said Dr. Robert, 'that the brain produces consciousness. I'm assuming that it transmits consciousness. And my explanation is no more…

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“Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channeling of impulse and energy. "But everyone belongs to everyone else," he concluded, citing the…

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“Yes, I thought it was wonderful,” he lied and looked away; the sight of her transfigured face was at once an accusation…

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“I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good—good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery…

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“Organization is indispensable; for liberty arises and has meaning only within a self-regulating community of freely cooperating individuals. But, though indispensable, organization…

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In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential…

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“But from the Parthenon and the Timaeus a specious logic leads to the tyranny which, in the Republic, is held up as…

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The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy;…

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“Only the most ingeniously optimistic, the most wilfully blind to the facts of history and psychology, can believe that paper guarantees of…

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Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that…

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“Under the Nazis enormous numbers of people were compelled to spend an enormous amount of time marching in serried ranks from point…

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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man…

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“We merely ask them," Mrs Narayan answered with a smile, "to attept the impossible. The children are told to translate their experience…

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“The firelight touches and transfigures her face, and we see, concretely illustrated, the impossible paradox and supreme truth—that perception is (or at…

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“During his long career as an agitator, Hitler had studied the effects of herd-poison and had learned how to exploit them for…

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“The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which…

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Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence…

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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as…

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“One egg, one embryo, one adult - normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six…

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“There, on a low bed, the sheet flung back, dressed in a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas, lay Lenina, fast asleep and…

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“In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change. Recent developments in Russia…

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“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined…

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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living…

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“You'd be the first to complain if people didn't write,' Judd rapped out. 'Here's your egg. Boiled for three minutes exactly. I…

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“Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very…

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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair…

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“He was crying, because the red marks of the whip on his back still hurt so terribly. But he was also crying…

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“Oh you the creator, you the destroyer, you who sustain and make an end, Who in sunlight dance among the birds and…

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“And while you were paying attention to these things, you were momentarily delivered from daydreams, from memories, from anticiaptions, from silly notions…

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