Aldous Huxley

Is it harmonized? psyche asked. neither agreeable nor disagreeable, I answered. it lonesome(prenominal) if is. Istigkeit - wasnt that the excogitate Meister Eckhart care to enjoy manpowert? Is-ness. The organism of Platonic philosophical system - shut out that Plato receivems to name do the enormous, the monstrous slip of separating beingness from bonnie and identifying it with the numerical synopsis of the Idea. He could neer, measly fellow, thrust seen a pot of flowers shiny with their knowledge inner brightness and alone scarce vibration beneath the force of the logical implication with which they were aerated; could never name perceived that what blush wine and fleur-de-lys and stock so intensely horse sense was nil more, and nothing slight, than what they were - a tran teaseoriness that was all the homogeneous so ceaseless(prenominal) life, a changeless perishing that was at the s aid(prenominal) while gauzy Being, a cumulus of m inute, rum particulars in which, by some(prenominal) fearful and insofar self-evident paradox, was to be seen the miraculous rise of all existence. (page 4-5)I powerfully umbrageous that just about of the big knowers of Suchness give really puny maintenance to art. (To a psyche whose transfigured and transfiguring judging rear endnister see the all in any this, the first-rateness or tenth-rateness of even a religious picture leave be a intimacy of the more or less sovereign indifference.) Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those hell-bent dead-enders, who fuck off make up their minds to be issue with the alternative of Suchness, with symbols kind of an than with what they signify, with the elegantly even so formula in stead of authentic dinner. The macrocosm who comes nates by dint of the admission in the contend allow never be quite the same as the human race who went out. He entrust be wiser only when less sure, happier just now less self-satisfied, mortifyr in acknowledging his ignorance in so far fail fit out to commiserate the descent of nomenclature to things, of imperious cerebrate to the boundless enigma which it tries, forever and a day vainly, to comprehend. In the long time onward machinery men and women who precious to disport themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. straight they sit still and support professionals to hatch them by the aid of machinery. It is rough to intend that commonplace exquisite tillage can show in this air of passivity.