Carolina QuotesRational and kindly behavior tends to produce good results and these results remain good even when the behavior which produced them was itself produced by a pill.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
In Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1977), p. 99
- work
- Brave New World Revisited (1958)
- year
- 1958
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- p. 99
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