Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Aldous Huxley quote

Enjoyed this quote I came across today:

"If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy."

3 comments:

  1. True, that barbarianism is forbidden to the "elite", I think this is appropo...but just as much so that reason creates mindless robots according to their "form" of cultural elitism...

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  2. I should have said, "their specified form of cultural eltism...

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  3. This is why each disipline needs the other disciplines to help understand wholisically...wisdom, and discovery.

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