Brave New World Happiness Quotes

No social stability without individual stability.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

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.

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.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

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.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

I’d rather be myself,” he said. “Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.

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

The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

We can’t allow science to undo its own good work.