Aldous Huxley
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Lectures, interviews, and conversations with Aldous Huxley — novelist, philosopher, and author of Brave New World.
…Surrey, England, the grandson of the eminent biologist T. H. Huxley and the grand-nephew of the celebrated poet and critic Matthew Arnold. His education at Eton was interrupted when an affliction of his eyes left him almost totally blind. He surmounted this…
…in Surrey, England, the grandson of the eminent biologist T.H. Huxley and the grand-nephew of the celebrated poet and critic Matthew Arnold. His education at Eton was interrupted when an affliction of his eyes left him almost totally blind. He surmounted…
…concepts, our principles, our categorical imperatives to do whatever we feel that we have to do One thinks of the phrase of Matthew Arnold Tasks in hours of insight willed can be in hours of gloom fulfilled And this is true not only of positive tasks,…
…have to keep ourselves continually remembering that this is the case. We have to remind ourselves in the very beautiful words of Matthew Arnold, where he says that to God, every minute in its race, crowd as we will, its neutral space, is but the quiet…