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Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder tho… - Aldous Huxley
" "Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty — they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?
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About Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was a British author known for his novel Brave New World. He was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and younger brother of Julian Huxley.
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Aldous Leonard Huxley Arnold
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En contraste con las masas, los intelectuales tienen afición a la racionalidad e interés por los hechos. Su hábito mental crítico los hace resistentes a la clase de propaganda que funciona también sobre la mayoría. Entre las masas "el instinto es supremo y del instinto surge la fe... Mientras la sana gente común estrecha instintivamente sus filas para formar la comunidad de un pueblo ( bajo un Jefe, sobra decirlo ), los intelectuales van de un lado a otro, como gallinas en un gallinero. Con ellos no se puede hacer historia; no pueden ser utilizados como elementos componentes de una comunidad."
I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had not; and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning for this world is not concerned exclusively with the problem of pure metaphysics; he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to...For myself...the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political.
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