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.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Drink Quotes

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens...

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens...

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel...

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel...

The proper study of mankind is books.

The proper study of mankind is books.

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.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

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...

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the...

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the...

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their...

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their...

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible...

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible...

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about...

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about...

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what...

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what...

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different.

From age to age, nothing changes, and yet everything ..... is completely different.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age,...

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age,...

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets...

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets...

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one...

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one...

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.