Aldous Huxley Quote: Further research revealed that lysergic acid, an extremely...

Further research revealed that lysergic acid, an extremely potent hallucinogen derived from ergot, has a structural biochemical relationship to the others. Then came the discovery that adrenochrome, which is a product of the decomposition of adrenalin, can produce many of the symptoms observed in mescalin intoxication. But adrenochrome probably occurs spontaneously in the human body. In other words, each one of us may be capable of manufacturing a chemical, minute doses of which are known to cause profound changes in consciousness.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: The Doors of Perception - 1954

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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: The Doors of Perception - 1954

Liberties aren’t given, they are taken.

— Aldous Huxley

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: The Doors of Perception - 1954