"The proper study of mankind is books"
Literature
"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger"
Freedom
"Brave New World"
"I have something to say about the social order"
Courage
"I want to make you free"
Freedom
"But I don't want comfort. I want God"
Faith
"Love, family, art, science—or the passion for the truth"
Wisdom
"I loathe their love. I despise their satisfaction"
Truth
"I had rather be Oedipus than a World Controller"
Freedom
"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."
Freedom
"Alone, always alone."
Solitude
"I feel I don't understand anything."
Wisdom
"I want to know what passion is like."
"I want to be free, not conditioned."
Freedom
"I want to understand things, to know things."
Education
"I don't understand anything anymore."
"I want to know what it feels like to be unhappy."
"I'm glad I'm not you"
Freedom
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger"
Courage
"Brave New World"
"O brave new world, that has such people in't"
Hope
"But I like the inconveniences"
Freedom
"I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else"
"Mostly harmless"
Wisdom
"The truth is like a god. It is the greatest good we can have"
Truth
"We prefer to do things comfortably"
"But we've sacrificed Shakespeare"
Art
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger."
Freedom
"I had mated with thousands of women and thousands of women had mated with me."
Relationships
"I am my own world and nobody else's business but my own."
Solitude