Aldous Huxley
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Lectures, interviews, and conversations with Aldous Huxley — novelist, philosopher, and author of Brave New World.
…that have absolutely nothing to do with what we are doing today, I happened to be looking at a collection of etchings by Francisco Goya. It turned out that the introduction to these etchings had been written by Mr. Aldous Huxley. When I say that I was…
…at one special etching, namely one which is in the Capriccio series and which represents a man, it happens that this man is Goya himself, sprawled over his desk in an atmosphere of nightmare with bats, owls, and a sort of wild cats looking at the…
…merely as rational creatures, but as creatures acting from the totality of the soul, body, spirit. This, I think, is the, whether Goya himself meant this exactly, but I think we can, I don't know, but I think we can interpret this extraordinary picture of…