“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 high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.” — 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
