Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
—Aldous Huxley, ‘Brave New World’ (via musicwordscolourslights)
Yes, and civilization is sterilization.
—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions… Suggestions from the State.
—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.
—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
