Aldous Huxley
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Lectures, interviews, and conversations with Aldous Huxley — novelist, philosopher, and author of Brave New World.
…of the Grove of Grand Inquisitor. he asked various members of this group about this. I mean, Freud has written, actually, on Dostoevsky and has stated at the beginning of his essay on Dostoevsky that he thinks the parable of the great inquisitor is one…
…of this group about this. I mean, Freud has written, actually, on Dostoevsky and has stated at the beginning of his essay on Dostoevsky that he thinks the parable of the great inquisitor is one of the great mountain peaks of human ethical thought. And I…
…also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas. Well, I mean, my goodness, I mean, Dostoevsky is six times as profound as Kierkegaard, because he writes fiction. I mean, here you have this abstract man going…
…mean, where you can get this storytelling which carries, at the same time, a kind of parable-like meaning, as you get, say, in Dostoevsky or in the best of Tolstoy, this is something extraordinary, I feel. I take it from that last remark that you rate…
…or in the best of Tolstoy, this is something extraordinary, I feel. I take it from that last remark that you rate Dostoevsky ahead of Tolstoy. No, well, I mean, they're very different, but I love them both. I mean, I think I'm always flabbergasted…