Conditioning Quote by Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Lenina was shocked by his blasphemy. 'Bernard!' she protested in a voice of amazed distress. 'How can you?' In a different key, 'How can…

— Aldous Huxley

...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must…

— Aldous Huxley

“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own…

— Aldous Huxley

If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed…

— Aldous Huxley

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield,…

— Aldous Huxley

Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government,…

— Aldous Huxley

¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and yet others…

— Aristotle

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic,…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“No happiness but in virtue. No, that wasn't true. Each part of the triune brain has its own happiness. Lizard in the sun, mammal…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“It is not by sin that we attain happiness, nor is it by virtue, nor is it by that kind of divine fire by…

— Henri Barbusse

“All the happiness and virtue in this world come from selflessness and generosity, all the sorrow from egotism, selfishness, and greed.”

— Lama Surya Das