“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… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
“... the Helmholtz of daily life who forgot and forgave, not the Helmholtz of a half-gramme holiday.” — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
“Why don't you make everybody an Alpha Double Plus while you're about it?" Mustapha Mond laughed. "Because we have no wish to have our… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
“It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes—make them lose their faith in happiness… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
“Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
“To pore over the literary shortcomings of twenty years ago, to attempt to patch a faulty work into the perfection it missed on its… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
“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… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
“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.… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
“Awful? They don't find it so. On the contrary, they like it. It's light, it's childishly simple. No strain on the mind or the… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
