Doors Of Perception Quotes

The really explicit phrase is 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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.

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

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.

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

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.