“Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There was a silence. In spite of their sadness—because of it, even; for their sadness was the symptom of their love for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then you think there is no God?" "No, I think there quite probably is one." "Then why? …" Mustapha Mond checked him.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Just to give you a general idea, he would explain to them. For of course some sort of general idea they must… — 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
