“-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol." ... "There was a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But, Bernard, you're saying the most awful things.' 'Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?' 'I don't know what you mean. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a hard master--particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably, than truth.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness!" - From Brave New World” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“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… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
