Aldous Huxley Quotes.

1. "Above them, in ten successive layers of dormitory, the little boys and girls who were still young enough to need an afternoon sleep were as busy as every one else, though they did not know it, listening unconsciously to hypnopædic lessons in hygiene and sociability, in class-consciousness and the toddler’s love-life."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

2. "And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know"
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

3. "Oh Ford, oh Ford!"
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

4. "Science? The Savage frowned. He knew the word. But what it exactly signified he could not say. Shakespeare and the old men of the pueblo had never mentioned science, and from Linda he had only gathered the vaguest hints: science was something you made helicopters with, some thing that caused you to laugh at the Corn Dances, something that prevented you from being wrinkled and losing your teeth. He made a desperate effort to take the Controller's meaning. "Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled." "What?" said Helmholtz, in astonishment. "But we're always saying that science is everything. It's a hypnopædic platitude." "Three times a week between thirteen and seventeen," put in Bernard. "And all the science propaganda we do at the College …" "Yes; but what sort of science?" asked Mustapha Mond sarcastically. "You've had no scientific training, so you can't judge. I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good–good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook. I'm the head cook now. But I was an inquisitive young scullion once. I started doing a bit of cooking on my own. Unorthodox cooking, illicit cooking. A bit of real science, in fact." He was silent. "What happened?" asked Helmholtz Watson. The Controller sighed. "Very nearly what's going to happen to you young men. I was on the point of being sent to an island."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

5. "Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station—seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

6. "All right then, said the savage defiantly, I’m claiming the right to be unhappy."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

7. "If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

8. "No es extraño que esos pobres premodernos estuviesen locos y fueran miserables y desgraciados. Su mundo no les permitía llevar fácilmente las cosas; no les permitía ser juiciosos, virtuosos, felices. Con madres y amantes, con prohibiciones para las que no estaban condicionados, con las tentaciones y los remordimientos solitarios, con todas sus enfermedades y su aislante dolor, por fuerza sentían intensamente las cosas. Y sintiéndolas así ¿Cómo podrían lograr ser unos seres estables?"
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

9. "Nosotros no sufrimos pérdida alguna que debamos compensar; por tanto, el sentimiento religioso resulta superfluo. ¿Por qué deberíamos correr en busca de un sucedáneo para los deseos juveniles, si los deseos juveniles nunca cejan? ¿Para qué un sucedáneo para las diversiones, si seguimos gozando de las viejas tonterías hasta el último momento? ¿Qué necesidad tenemos de reposo cuando nuestras mentes y nuestros cuerpos siguen deleitándose en la actividad? ¿Qué consuelo necesitamos, puesto que tenemos soma? ¿Para qué buscar algo inamovible, si ya tenemos el orden social?"
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

10. "Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It’s"
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World