Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

#hard #master #other #particularly #people

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #capacity #granted #human #human beings

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#darkness #explained #fantastic #know #more

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cruelty #impulse #love #many #mischievous

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#forget #human #make #other #people

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#common #decencies #efficiency #enemy #freedom

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#attention #discovers #doing #done #formula

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#corner #improving #only #own #self

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#bad #book #comes #good #labor

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#intelligence #man #organs #servitude