Doors Of Perception Quotes

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.

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.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

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.

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.

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.

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

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.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

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

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

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

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

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