MIND in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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1 The adult's mind too--all his life long.
2 The words seemed to touch a spring in her mind.
3 The words awoke a plaintive echo in Bernard's mind.
4 Old Mitsima's words repeated themselves in his mind.
5 'I suppose Epsilons don't really mind being Epsilons,' she said aloud.
6 Later on their minds would be made to endorse the judgment of their bodies.
7 The mind that judges and desires and decides--made up of these suggestions.
8 But though the Epsilon mind was mature at ten, the Epsilon body was not fit to work till eighteen.
9 With his mind's eye, Bernard saw the needle on the scent meter creeping round and round, ant-like, indefatigably.
10 Lenina did her best to stop the ears of her mind; but every now and then a phrase would insist on becoming audible.
11 And his deplorable habit of being bold after the event, and full, in absence, of the most extraordinary presence of mind.
12 It was fairly easy, if he thought hard enough about the reading, to pretend that he didn't mind when they made fun of him.
13 Again, again--and it was not the ear that heard the pulsing rhythm, it was the midriff; the wail and clang of those recurring harmonies haunted, not the mind, but the yearning bowels of compassion.
14 So odd, indeed, that in the course of the succeeding weeks she had wondered more than once whether she shouldn't change her mind about the New Mexico holiday, and go instead to the North Pole with Benito Hoover.
15 Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks--already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly.
16 Lenina remembered her first shock of fear and surprise; her speculations through half a wakeful hour; and then, under the influence of those endless repetitions, the gradual soothing of her mind, the soothing, the smoothing, the stealthy creeping of sleep.
17 It was the sort of idea that might easily de-condition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes--make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.
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