Happiness Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Happiness is never grand.

— Aldous Huxley

“You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.”

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“What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness!" - From Brave New World”

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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

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“A felicidade nunca é graciosa. Happiness is never gracious.”

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“Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.”

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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

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“Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.”

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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love,…

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“One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because…

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Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in…

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“that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their…

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It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully…

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I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

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“-make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond,…

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“And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with…

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“Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice.…

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And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.…

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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as…

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“Just to give you a general idea, he would explain to them. For of course some sort of general idea they must…

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“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it…

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For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors…

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“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol." ... "There was a…

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“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be…

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“Then you think there is no God?" "No, I think there quite probably is one." "Then why? …" Mustapha Mond checked him.…

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“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…

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“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

“For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of…

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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I…

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Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

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“That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.”

— Aldous Huxley

"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

“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

“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”

— Aldous Huxley

“But wouldn’t you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not…

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“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.”

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