Aldous Huxley
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Lectures, interviews, and conversations with Aldous Huxley — novelist, philosopher, and author of Brave New World.
…same time temper the dream with this element which he himself was speaking about yesterday when he quoted the saying of Montaigne that science sans conscience est ruine de l'âme. Science without conscience, without the bowels of compassion and the heart, is…
…I cannot think of them except to hate and despise and in the same way in an earlier century we get the testimony of Montaigne who says in this marvelously frank and honest way he says I cannot too much stress with how little an expense of worry or…
…becoming engaged and enmeshed in the world of short-range history so that I think it would be very difficult now for a Montaigne or a Jane Austen to live quite so completely apart from the historical movement as was possible in the past largely because…