Carolina QuotesFirst Shakespeare sonnets seem meaningless; first Bach fugues, a bore; first differential equations, sheer torture. But training changes the nature of our spiritual experiences. In due course, contact with an obscurely beautiful poem, an elaborate piece of counterpoint or of mathematical reasoning, causes us to feel direct intuitions of beauty and significance. It is the same in the moral world.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 14, p. 333 [2012 reprint]
- work
- Ends and Means (1937)
- year
- 1937
- locator
- p. 333
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“First Shakespeare sonnets seem meaningless; first Bach fugue…” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-31D5286AA4. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/31d5286aa4
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