The Easiness of the Intellectual Life

The real charm of the intellectual life is its easiness, he writes. Living's much more difficult than Sanskrit or chemistry and economics says Huxley. The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectuals' favourite pastime: substituting simple abstractions for the living complexities of reality. But seeking truth is much easier than learning the art of integral living, in which "truth-seeking" will take its due place like Skittles and Mountain Climbing.