Carolina QuotesQuery: how to combine the belief that the world is a to a great extent illusory with belief that it is none the less essential to improve the illusion? How to be simultaneously dispassionate and not indifferent, serene like an old man and active like a young one?
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 7
- work
- Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- year
- 1936
Cite this record
“Query: how to combine the belief that the world is a to a gr…” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-F13C685532. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/f13c685532
More from Aldous Huxley
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
It often happens that reforms merely have the effect of transferring the undesirable tendencies of individuals from one channel to another channel. An old outlet for some particular wickedness is closed; but a new outlet is opened. The wickedness is not abolished; it is merely provided with a different set of opportunities for self-expression.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing beyond the bounds of possibility.