Huxley

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    A life-worshipper’s philosophy is comprehensive.... He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death ... and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    For Jeremy, direct, unmediated experience was always hard to take in, always more or less disquieting. Life became safe, things assumed meaning, only when they had been translated into words and confined between the covers of a book.
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)