Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Quotes

• “Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stabil...”
• “He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ ...”
• “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
• “I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,"he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.”
• “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
• “Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”