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Happiness Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
- There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
- Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
- God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
- Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being…
- It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
- For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone…
- Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
- And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims…
- Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
- Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
- "But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've…
- Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was…
- I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
More Happiness Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach