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

Aldous Huxley

Perception

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Aldous Huxley

Talent

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

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Aldous Huxley

Love

Habit

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Aldous Huxley

Art

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley

Truth

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Aldous Huxley

Name

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Aldous Huxley

State

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

Comedy

Tragedy

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Aldous Huxley

Age

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.