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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure as a monster he was superb.
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Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
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