A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. — J. August Strindberg
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none. — William Shakespeare
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma. — Aldous Huxley
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. — Aldous Huxley
There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes. — Art Buchwald
Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines? — Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Lenina Quotes
I love you more than anything in the world combined. — Stephenie Meyer
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. — Aldous Huxley
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
When the individual feels, the community reels. — Aldous Huxley
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley
But every one belongs to every one else — Aldous Huxley
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
We can't allow science to undo its own good work. — Aldous Huxley
What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you? — Aldous Huxley
I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly. — Aldous Huxley
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. — Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Happiness Quotes
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. — Aldous Huxley
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley
We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. — Aldous Huxley
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men. — Aldous Huxley
I like being myself. Myself and nasty. — Aldous Huxley
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. — Aldous Huxley
When someone disrespects you, beware the impulse to win their respect. For disrespect is not a valuation of your worth but a signal of their character.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. — Aldous Huxley
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley
"But 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 the high art. — Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Freedom Quotes
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldous Huxley
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. — Aldous Huxley
We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters. — Aldous Huxley
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. — Aldous Huxley
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning. — Aldous Huxley
Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too. — Aldous Huxley
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. — Aldous Huxley
It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous. — Aldous Huxley
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. — Aldous Huxley
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. — Aldous Huxley
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. — Aldous Huxley
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. — Aldous Huxley
Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London. — Aldous Huxley
A love of nature keeps no factories busy. — Aldous Huxley
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising. — Aldous Huxley
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. — Aldous Huxley
Value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer. — William Shakespeare
Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. — William Shakespeare
God in the safe and Ford on the shelves. — Aldous Huxley
You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk. — Aldous Huxley
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death. — Aldous Huxley
While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed. — William Shakespeare
Works like 'Brave New World' and 'The Handmaiden's Tale' develop their atmosphere from a movement or a revolution, as if the world has ended and has come out to this other side. When I wrote 'The Bad Batch,' I thought that the world outside the gates that confine the 'bad' characters is simply our world today. — Ana Lily Amirpour
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is. — Aldous Huxley
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