Doors Of Perception Quotes:

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

- William Blake

source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "A Memorable Fancy" plate 14 (1790 - 1793). Inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 book about drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the 1960s rock group The Doors.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Guinea, Spirit Of Life

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Hands, Solitude, Feelings, Doors Of Perception

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

- Jim Morrison

source: Tagline to "The Doors" Documentary, 1991.

topic: Doors, Doors Of Perception, Unknown Things, Sense Perception

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

- William Blake

topic: Wisdom, Men, Doors, Doors Of Perception

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

- Charles Webster Leadbeater

source: "Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of Different Types of Men as Seen by Means of Trained Clairvoyance".

topic: Spiritual, Mistake, Perception, Doors Of Perception, Perception Of The World

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Life, Wall, Ignorance, Huxley, Doors Of Perception

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Humility, Reality, Data, Beneficiaries, Doors Of Perception

Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Remember, Moments, Persons, Doors Of Perception

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Powerful, Communication, Inspirational Photography, Inspiring Photography

The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.

- Marilyn Ferguson

topic: Healing, Doors, Perfect, Caverns, Altered States

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

- Milton Babbitt

source: "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, December 13, 1996.

topic: Perception, Humans, Limitation, Doors Of Perception

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.

- Tom Wolfe

source: Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.62, Macmillan

topic: Baby, Mean, Doors, Doors Of Perception

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

- William Blake

topic: Hands, Infinity, Palms, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Earth

a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.

- Tom Wolfe

source: Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.163, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

topic: Past, Doors, Feelings, Doors Of Perception, Timelessness

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern. I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

- William Blake

topic: Beautiful, Eye, Men, Caverns, Doors Of Perception

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

- William Blake

topic: Life, Desire, Acting, Doors Of Perception, Heaven And Hell

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

topic: Doors, Darkness, Perception, Doors Of Perception

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: "Ursula K. Le Guin, The Art of Fiction No. 221". Interview with John Wray, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 2013.

topic: Drama, Doors, Perception, Doors Of Perception

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

- Marianne Faithfull

topic: Doors, Perception, Phrases, Explicit, Doors Of Perception

We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.

- Octavio Paz

source: Octavio Paz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1990.

topic: Real, Air, Doors, Handful, Syllables

Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.

- Bill Bailey

source: "Is It Bill Bailey?". Comedy, Music, 1998.

topic: Funny, Book, Humor, Huxley, Doors Of Perception

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

- George Carlin

topic: Doors, Perception, Hallucinogens, Doors Of Perception

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

- William Blake

topic: Beautiful, Money, Eye, Guinea, Misers

The editor needs to put his own life on hold for the better of the magazine, the crew, and the readers. And to have a bigger vision of the magazine's style and an understanding that every [issue] should be well-balanced and hopefully surprising. To have a pink wall with a door of perception where he can bang his head on.

- Toni Jerrman

topic: Wall, Issues, Doors, Doors Of Perception

The faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock the doors of perception.

- Jeff Lindsay

source: Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.144, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Beer, Doors, Perception, Doors Of Perception