Our Real Motives are Always Hidden
Our nature abhors a moral and intellectual vacuum. Passion and self-interest may be our chief motives, but we hate to admit the fact even to ourselves. We are not happy unless our acts of passion can be made to look as though they were dictated by reason, unless our self-interest can be explained and embellished so as to seem idealistic.
Aldous Huxley, in '�Writers and Readers�, The Olive Tree and Other Essays'
Aldous Huxley, in '�Writers and Readers�, The Olive Tree and Other Essays'
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