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Upon Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
- Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
- In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.
- Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to…
- Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and…
- Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of…
- 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…
- 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…
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