Aldous Huxley Quotes.

11. "No son los filósofos sino los que se dedican a la marquetería y los coleccionistas de sellos los que constituyen la columna vertebral de la sociedad."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

12. "I want to look at the sea in peace, he said. One can’t even look with that beastly noise going on. But it’s lovely. And I don’t want to look. But I do, he insisted. It makes me feel as though . . . he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn’t it make you feel like that, Lenina? But Lenina was crying. It’s horrible, it’s horrible, she kept repeating. And how can you talk like that about not wanting to be a part of the social body? After all, every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons . . . Yes, I know, said Bernard derisively. ‘Even Epsilons are useful’! So am I. And I damned well wish I weren’t! Lenina was shocked by his blasphemy. Bernard! She protested in a voice of amazed distress. How can you? In a different key, How can I? he repeated meditatively. No, the real problem is: How is it that I can’t, or rather—because, after all, I know quite well why I can’t—what would it be like if I could, if I were free—not enslaved by my conditioning. But, Bernard, you’re saying the most awful things. Don’t you wish you were free, Lenina? I don’t know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody’s happy nowadays. He laughed, Yes, ‘Everybody’s happy nowadays.’ We begin giving the children that at five. But wouldn’t you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else’s way."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

13. "His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

14. "Utopias seem to be much more attainable than one would have believed in other times. And we currently find ourselves faced with a different kind of agonizing question: How can one avoid their definitive attainment? … Utopias are attainable. Life leads us toward utopias. Perhaps a new century will begin, a century in which the intellectuals and the cultivated classes will dream again of ways to avoid utopias and to return to a non-utopian society, one less perfect and more free."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

15. "Near Shepherd’s Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

16. "She looked up with a certain anxiety. 'But you don't think I'm too plump, do you?' He shook his head.Like so much meat. 'You think I'm all right.' Another nod. 'In every way?' 'Perfect.' he said aloud. And inwardly, 'She thinks of herself that way. She doesn't mind being meat."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

17. "the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

18. "it is natural to believe in God when you’re alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death . . . But people never are alone now, said Mustapha Mond. We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it’s almost impossible for them ever to have it."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

19. "But I do," he insisted. "It makes me feel as though …" he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, "as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn't it make you feel like that, Lenina?"
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

20. "no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World