Aldous Huxley Quote: The legs, for example, of that chair–how miraculous...

The legs, for example, of that chair–how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes–or was it several centuries?–not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them—or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for “I” was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were “they”) being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: The Doors of Perception - 1954

certain minutes merely accurate legs

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Words are good servants but bad masters.

— Aldous Huxley

Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: The Doors of Perception - 1954