Aldous huxley

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Clive James writes that Aldous Huxley, the author of “Brave New World,” “Point Counter Point,” “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan,” and more, was unable to see that his longed-for state of higher reality already existed.

It is man's intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in...

Aldous Huxley 1936 photo by Cecil Beaton

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Today marks the 120th birthday of English novelist and prolific essayist Aldous Huxley. The Brave New World author’s scathing critique of the mass media and the government (and their use of technology) positioned him at the center of intellectual…

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. - Aldous Huxley Picture Quotes

Recently my brilliant blogging colleague Eric Wagner answered a query I made about reading difficult books. At the end of his response he noted that both James Joyce and Ezra Pound lived through a period in which information doubled, and this may account, in part, for why both men wrote such crazy-difficult books, still avant in play with forms and a level of abstruseness. The idea of information doubling was taken from Robert Anton Wilson, who called the apparent logarithmic increase of…

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” — Aldous Huxley

Best known for his 1932 novel 'Brave New World,' Aldous Huxley later wrote about his experimentation with psychedelic drugs. But there’s a lot more to Huxley’s life than dystopian novels.

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Vanessa Bell - Aldous Huxley 1931

Can we develop an evolutionary ethics? Can we derive an Ought from the Is of natural processes? People have certainly tried. The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus was the prophet of evolutionary theory…