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“It is because we don’t know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, and sometime criminal ways that are so characteristically human.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

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“…for by introspection and by listening to other people’s judgements of our character we ca all, if we so desire, come to a very shrewd understanding of our flaws and weaknesses and real, as opposed to the avowed and advertised, motives or our actions. If most of use remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

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“The philosophy that rationalizes power politics and justifies war and military training is always (whatever the religion of the politicians and the war makers) some wildly unrealistic doctrine of national, racial, or ideological idolatry, having, as inevitable corollaries the notions of Herrenvolk and “lesser breeds without the law.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

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“An artist's inspiration may be either a human or a spiritual grace, or a mixture of both. Hight artistic achievement is impossible without at least those forms of intellectual, emotional, or physical mortification appropriate to the kind of art which is being practiced.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

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“The Mortified are, in some respects, often much worse than the unmortified is a commonplace of history, fiction, and descriptive psychology. Thus, the Puritan may practice all the cardinal virtues –prudence, fortitude, temperance, and chastity –and yet remain a thoroughly bad man; for in all too many cases, these virtues of his are accompanied by and casually connected with the sins of pride, envy, chronic anger, and uncharitableness sometimes to the level of active cruelty. Mistaking the means for the end, the Puritan has fancied himself holy because he is stoically austere.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

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Political Philosophy and Ethics — 6361 members — last activity Mar 23, 2026 09:47AM
Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more

Philosophy — 5821 members — last activity Mar 17, 2026 01:22AM
What is Philosophy? Why is it important? How do you use it? This group looks at these questions and others: ethics, government, economics, skepticism, ...more

Stoic Book Club — 885 members — last activity Feb 17, 2026 10:41PM
This club is about traditional Stoicism with the distinct purpose of enabling and promoting discourse on Stoic philosophy as a way of life.

In Search of Meaning — 399 members — last activity Mar 21, 2026 08:58PM
Hello! In this group, we will build a discussion around the texts which are essential to the quest of finding meaning in life. Books will mostly consi ...more

Christian Theological/Philosophical Book Club — 1906 members — last activity Dec 27, 2025 06:15PM
The primary guidelines for this group are a sincere love for the true God of the Bible and a commitment to relying on the Word of God (the Bible) as t ...more

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