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Aldous Huxley Quotes
«The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.»
«But when the wearied Band / Swoons to a waltz, I take her hand, / And there we sit in peaceful calm, / Quietly sweating palm to palm.»
«Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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circles, hall, meaninglessness, regarded, specialize, specialized, specializing
«The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
amelioration, humdrum, mainly, periods, uninspiring
«Our Ford . . . had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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appalling, dangers, family life, First to, ford, fords
«Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Bodhisattvas, dilute, diluted, diluting, hardened
«Knowing who in fact we are results in Good Being, and Good Being results in the most appropriate kind of good doing. But good doing does not of itself result in Good Being. We can be virtuous without knowing who in fact we are. The beings who are merely good are not Good Beings; they are just pillars of society.»
«The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest and most comprehensive summaries of the spiritual thoughts ever to have been made.»