126 result(s) for Brave New World Quotes.
"It is a little embarrassing to think how much time we devote to thinking about ourselves."
"The greatest triumphs of the human spirit are unrecorded."
"The savage recognizes himself in the Other, but he does so without the need for language."
"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
"People are too often led by their emotions rather than by their thoughts."
"The more a man understands, the less he understands others, and the more he has of self-consciousness, the more he is self-absorbed."
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"The mind that can be open to everything is also open to nothing."
"To the man who has no power, freedom is a curse."
"We have a few madmen left. Not many, just a few. They are still worth preserving."
"The instinct of the scientist is to see truth in partial truths."
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for diminishing pleasure."
"The desire to know is one of the greatest human drives."
"The world is not a conclusion; it goes on."
"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the mind."
"They'll show you how to be happy—and then they'll tell you also how to live with your unhappiness."
"Words are just as necessary to human beings as water."
"The foundation of a person is broader than you think. Most of what you are is not what you think you are."
"Self-indulgence is a natural sign of freedom."
"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice."
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by the world’s greatest cowards."
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"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
"All that is solid melts into air."
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."
"The greatest triumphs of the human spirit are unrecorded. They are the private victories of many against the odds."
"There is no such thing as happiness; only different degrees of unhappiness."
"The public has been conditioned to believe that there is safety in the uniformity of life."
"That is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you have to do. All our powers of the mind involve the use of memory."
"The individual has a soul, but the race has no soul."
"I want to know what my part is in this world; I want to understand the system."
"Man is an artifact designed for social playing."
"The conditioning process is the most important part of the world state: happy people are those who are conditioned to be happy."
"Our civilization is decadent and our minds are still the minds of savages."
"You can’t have a happy world without the individual suffering."
"They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call ‘learning experience’."
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"We are not only a part of one another, we are a part of something greater."
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
"We must face the fact that our leaders are not the people who are leading us but the people who are following us."
"It is a matter of belief that happiness lies in gadgets."
"What the new health services called ‘the pleasure of self-fulfillment’."
"A man may be a philosopher, but if so, he will not be in the service of the world state."
"Murder is not a tragedy if it’s done for the right reasons."
"Ambition is a kind of pathology in the normal condition of man."
"There will be no happiness without freedom, and there can be no freedom without the acceptance of solitude."
"The illusion of happiness is more desirable than the bitter truth."
"The future will be a narrative of progress in which the world becomes a better place."
"The essential freedom is the freedom to learn and the freedom to know."
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced."
"We are all of us the creature of our own society."
"The greatest triumphs of the human spirit are unaware of the world of facts."
"What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder."
"I want to know what happiness is, and I want to be happy."
"The man who is not afraid of the sea will not overcome the oceans."
"O brave new world, that has such people in it!"
"The price of stability is the tyranny of the majority."
"Those who are educated by the past, escape the present."
"We have a respectable number of people, a good proportion of which will unquestionably resent any outside pressure."
"There’s always a pleasure in being right."
"What a funny world it is—not to mention the effects of sanity."
"Experience is not what happens to man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
"The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."
"There is a great deal of difference between the world of facts and the world of human sentiments."
"The truth is that all the great emotions are a kind of madness."
"Experience is the most valuable asset of mankind."
"We don’t have any friends here, only companions in the pursuit of an exciting adventure."
"They’ll make a scientist out of you soon enough."
"As they say, two heads are better than one."
"The use of crystal clear clarity makes for happy relationships."
"The ferment among the peoples results from the ferment of the human spirit."
"What is the world coming to when drones are calling people, for that matter?"
"Happiness is never grand, it is always simple and small."
"The most important thing we must learn is to submit to the demands of natural law."
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
"The greatest triumphs of the human spirit are ultimately not to be found in any kind of ultimate achievement, but in the struggle to overcome the greatest challenges."
"We can be the masters of our own environments if we choose to be."
"It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size."
"Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you."
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything."
"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything."
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
"You can't create experience. You must undergo it."
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."
"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
"To travel far, there is no better ship than a book."
"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
"Experience teaches, but only if you listen to it."
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
"The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know."
"There is always a point of view. Yours is your own."
"The best way to be happy is to turn the negative situations into opportunities."
"Every man who says he is not a man must also say what he is."
"People are always the same. They consistently choose pleasure over pain unless their hunger is too great."
"All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant."
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
"A love that is not cultivated or nourished can wither and die."
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."
"The greatest triumphs of the human spirit are unrecorded. They are no less a part of human history than its greatest explosions."
"Our civilization is characterized by the atrophy of feeling."
"The pen is mightier than the sword, but only when the sword is very, very old."
"The sooner the resurgence of the spirit, the better."
"There is no reason why the ordinary man should not strive to be the best he can."
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
"It is a rare piece of literature that can bring together so many divergent notions as one tends to find in Huxley's works."
"To be happy in this world, you must be able to ignore the world blindly."
"All the facts can be controlled in this world, but the source of truth remains elusive."
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
"You can't have a fast world without a slow world."
"Words can be weapons, but the silence can be a shield."
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
"The only thing that can save us is the intelligence and creativity of the individual citizen."
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul."
"Technological civilization is like a man, who could be burned alive slow by his own ignorance."
"A man may be inspired by the most unlikely things, but the source of his inspiration is both elusive and unfathomable."
"Happiness is never grand."
"You can always tell when a man has lost hope."
"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."
"One must choose between obedience and conscience."
"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
"Perhaps the greatest distortion of all is the distortion of the self."
"Most of us would rather risk a tranquilizing dose of conformity than face the complexities of an authentic life."
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