Carolina QuotesJehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
“One and Many”, p. 3
- work
- Do What You Will (1928)
- year
- 1928
- locator
- p. 3
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