"Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is……" — Aldous Huxley
"Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy."
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Aldous Huxley
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to…
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others,…
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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…
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up,…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that…
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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