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Course Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
- The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest…
- Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to…
- We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to…
- The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
- Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being…
- When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.
- And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I…
- Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary…
- Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it…
- In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
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