When truth is nothing but the truth, it’s unnatural, it’s an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth. That’s why art moves you—precisely because it’s unadulterated with all the irrelevancies of real life.--Aldous Huxley
The Empire of Time — A Philosophical Angle
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts
leading men to philosophy. It is derived, no doubt, from love of home and
desire ...
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