Quotes About The Doors Of Perception

#1. I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.

Lionel Suggs

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

William Blake

#3. When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

Brigham Young

#4. I feel part of the environment, not separate from it, as though I'm at home rather than visiting - as though I'm tapped into some eternal omnipresence beyond the transient physical forms.

Michael Sanders

#5. I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

Dylan Moran

#6. ... the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.

Kate Atkinson

#7. BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161

Rodman Philbrick

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

Aldous Huxley

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Once we know where the Doors of Perception are, it's really easy to open and close them, when we get used to our own 'strange' behavior.

Paulo Coelho

#12. You Won't Be Thanked For Kicking Down The Doors of Perception And Revealing Infinity To Others.

Dean Cavanagh

#13. Gray texted me a joke the other day. Want to hear it?"
"Knowing Gray's terrible jokes, probably not. But okay."
He rubs the back of his neck. "What do you call a cow with no legs?"
I caress his waist where muscles ripple. "What?"
"Ground beef.

Kristen Callihan

#14. The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

Marianne Faithfull

#15. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

William Blake

#16. Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who you are, your beliefs and your values. Reputation is the public perception of who you are. It is how others view your integrity or strong moral principles.

Erik Qualman

#17. Fiction - and poetry and drama - cleanse the doors of perception.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#18. Knowledge and perception are the two main doors of the mind.

Mitch Kynock

#19. Now was not the time to be sentimental. As a child, she'd been ridiculously sentimental about loss, about time passing.

Maryanne O'Hara

#20. 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

#21. Let's be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That's why I like it ... The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that's my idea of a good time.

Frank Zappa

#22. I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.

Brian May

#23. Through the doors of perception, down the corridors of uncertainty, and into the room of self doubt, opens the window of opportunity.

David Parker

#24. Autumn ripens in the summer's ray.

John Armstrong

#25. Look where we worship.

Jim Morrison

#26. 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

#27. When the evidence for and against "democracy being the finest system of government yet invented" is weighed, George W Bush is going to tip the scales very heavily against.

Andre The BFG

#28. The sun now radiated all around me and the magnificent palace that lay before me glittered invitingly. Which reminded me of another one of Mother's sayings: if something appears too good to be true, it probably is.

Jessie Harrell

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

George Carlin

#30. I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

Sarah Ruhl