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- Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
- Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which…
- Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
- The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their…
- The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
- Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
- You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in…
- A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an…
- The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will…
- Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon…
- Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being…
- Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the…
- Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
- 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…
- People travel for the same reason they collect works of art: because the best people do it
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