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Doors Of Perception Quotes

If the doors of perception were cleared everything will appear to us as it is, infinite
- Oscar Wilde

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

There are things of such darkness and horrorjust, I suppose, as there are things of such great beautythat they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.
- Stephen King

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
- Marianne Faithfull

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

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

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

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

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