The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. — George Orwell
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life. — Helen Keller
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. — Bertrand Russell
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient. — Aristotle
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. — Bertrand Russell
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. — George Santayana
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. — Seneca
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. — Seneca
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. — Gustave Flaubert
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence. — David Hume
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. — Thomas Aquinas
Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind. — Marcus Aurelius
Brave New World Quotes
It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young. — Lemmy Kilmister
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. — Aldous Huxley
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. — Aldous Huxley
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma. — Aldous Huxley
Never regret anything that made you smile.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. — Aldous Huxley
There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes. — Art Buchwald
Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines? — Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Character Quotes
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. — Aldous Huxley
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. — Aldous Huxley
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
When the individual feels, the community reels. — Aldous Huxley
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley
But every one belongs to every one else — Aldous Huxley
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
We can't allow science to undo its own good work. — Aldous Huxley
We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. — Aldous Huxley
I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly. — Aldous Huxley
What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. — Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Freedom Quotes
What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you? — Aldous Huxley
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men. — Aldous Huxley
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. — Aldous Huxley
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. — Aldous Huxley
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldous Huxley
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
"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 sacrificed the high art. — Aldous Huxley
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. — Aldous Huxley
We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters. — Aldous Huxley
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. — Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Consumerism Quotes
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. — Aldous Huxley
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. — Aldous Huxley
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. — Aldous Huxley
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
A love of nature keeps no factories busy. — Aldous Huxley
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 of society. — Aldous Huxley
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
I love you more than anything in the world combined. — Stephenie Meyer
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 at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley
I like being myself. Myself and nasty. — Aldous Huxley
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly. — Aldous Huxley
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 too much interested in truth; I paid too. — Aldous Huxley
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. — Aldous Huxley
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. — Aldous Huxley
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook. — Aldous Huxley
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising. — Aldous Huxley
Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays. — Aldous Huxley
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. — Aldous Huxley
Value dwells not in particular will;
It holds his estimate and dignity
As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
As in the prizer. — William Shakespeare
Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. — William Shakespeare
Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots! — Aldous Huxley
God in the safe and Ford on the shelves. — Aldous Huxley
You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk. — Aldous Huxley
They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though — Aldous Huxley
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death. — Aldous Huxley
When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them. — Aldous Huxley
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east. — Aldous Huxley
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