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Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
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Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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Civilization is sterilization.
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Happiness is never grand.
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Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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Science in itself is morally neutral it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.
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Sunsets and death death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
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Pully, hauly, tug with a will the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
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Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.
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You've got to be hurt and upset otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
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