I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Happiness Quotes

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

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

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

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

How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is...

How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is...

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most...

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most...

Experience teaches us at the expense of our illusions

Experience teaches us at the expense of our illusions

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as...

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as...

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual...

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual...

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it...

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it...

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the...

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with...

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with...

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.