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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
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To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
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Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.
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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time the Gray Life.
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.
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Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
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I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.
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Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
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Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.
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