Carolina QuotesLife was so short, and books so countlessly many.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 10
- work
- Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- year
- 1936
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“Life was so short, and books so countlessly many.” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-20624BB929. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/20624bb929
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies—the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distraction.
The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.