Carolina QuotesOur conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error — the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 14, p. 309 [2012 reprint]
- work
- Ends and Means (1937)
- year
- 1937
- locator
- p. 309
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“Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part …” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-1386A3635B. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/1386a3635b
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