Aldous Huxley Quote: From this long but indispensable excursion into the...

From this long but indispensable excursion into the realm of theory, we may now return to the miraculous facts – four bamboo chair legs in the middle of a room. Like Wordsworth’s daffodils, they brought all manner of wealth – the gift, beyond price, of a new direct insight into the very Nature of Things, together with a more modest treasure of understanding in the field, especially, of the arts. A rose is a rose is a rose. But these chair legs were chair legs were St. Michael and all angels.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: The Doors of Perception - 1954

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Select Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: Quoted in Do What You Will: Essays - 1931

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: Vulgarity in Literature - 1930

All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: The Doors of Perception - 1954