The Doors of Perception
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"The Doors of Perception" Quotes

By Aldous Huxley

philosophy | 63 pages | Published in 1954

ISBN_13: 9999999999999

Quotes

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Aldous Huxley

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.

Aldous Huxley

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Aldous Huxley

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them.

Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous Huxley

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal.

Aldous Huxley

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.

Aldous Huxley