Carolina QuotesIt's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Letter (10 July 1962), quoted in Donald Watt (ed.) Aldous Huxley: The Citical Heritage (1975)
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- 1962
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“It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-049AC31A24. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/049ac31a24
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Our psychological experiences are all equally facts. There is nothing to choose between them. No psychological experience is "truer," so far as we are concerned, than any other. For even if one should correspond more closely to things in themselves as perceived by some hypothetical non-human being, it would be impossible for us to discover which it was. Science is no "truer" than common sense, or lunacy, or art, or religion. It permits us to organize our experience profitably; but tells us nothing about the real nature of the world to which our experiences are supposed to refer. From the internal reality, by which I mean the totality of psychological experiences, it actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences — the experiences of sense.
In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et præterea nihil.
Shame to have ousted your betters thus, Taking ark while the others remained outside! Better for all of us, froward Homunculus, If you’d quietly died!