Aldous Huxley Quotes

“Fine to think we can go on being socially useful even after we're dead. Making plants grow.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:death nature society

“Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:happiness others

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against...”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:happiness misery

“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:happiness truth beauty

“It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:happiness science art

“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.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:happiness science

“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, Brave New World

topic:happiness art

“What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:truth beauty violence

“You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

topic:knowledge learning science

“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, Brave New World

topic:freedom sin danger comfort

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