“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 muscles. Seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labour, and then the soma ration and… — 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 throats cut," he answered. "We believe in happiness and stability. A society of Alphas couldn't fail to be unstable and miserable. Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas–that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share
“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 as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere, that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share
“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
