Saturday, May 2, 2009

And the greatest, and what may be called the original sin of the human mind

is sloth, it's over-simplification. We want to think that there is only one cause for every given phenomenon, therefore there is only one cure--there is not! This is the trouble: no phenomenon on the human level, which is a level of immense complexity, can ever have a single cause-- we must always take at least a half a dozen conspiring factors into consideration . . .
-- Aldous Huxley, 1960


No comments: