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Tag Archives: Aldous Huxley
Today’s Potent Quote …
The difference between the mortified, but still proud and self-centered stoic and the unmortified hedonist consists in this: the latter, being flabby, shiftless and at heart rather ashamed of himself, lacks the energy and the motive to do much harm … Continue reading
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More on the Artist Within …
The poet’s or the painter’s vision of the divine in nature, the worshipper’s awareness of a holy presence in the sacrament, symbol or image – these are not entirely subjective. True, such perceptions cannot be had by all perceivers, for … Continue reading
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Today’s Potent (Seed) Thought
The politics of those whose goal is beyond time are always pacific; it is the idolaters of past and future, of reactionary memory and Utopian dream, who do the persecuting and make wars…The philosophy that rationalizes war and military training … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Aldous Huxley, pacificism, politics, rationalization, The Perennial Philosophy, war
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