1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

O brave new world that has such people in it.

Community, Identity, Stability.” Grand words. “If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.

Degrade him from what position? As a happy, hard-working, goods-consuming citizen he’s perfect. Of course, if you choose some other standard than ours, then perhaps you might say he was degraded. But you’ve got to stick to one set of postulates. You can’t play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one’s voice!

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

When truth is nothing but truth, it’s unnatural, it’s an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

We haven’t any use for old things here.” “Even when they’re beautiful?” “Particularly when they’re beautiful. Beauty’s attractive, and we don’t want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.” “But the new ones are so stupid and horrible.