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Brave new world happiness Quotes by Aldous Huxley

9 Brave new world happiness quotes by Aldous Huxley

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In Aldous Huxley’s dystopia, happiness is a tightly controlled illusion, engineered through conditioning. This selection highlights her belief that achievement grows from self‑awareness, the balance of giving and receiving, and the signals that guide us toward an abundant, conscious life.

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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

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All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

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Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

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We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

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When the individual feels, the community reels.

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If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

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You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

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And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the…

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“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.”

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Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that…

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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my…

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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

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Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,…

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“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,…

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“I’ll MAKE you be free whether you want to or not.’ -The Savage”

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Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create…

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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done…

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“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now…

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All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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