We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
Source: The Doors of Perception - 1954
Select Quotes by Aldous Huxley
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Source: Proper Studies - 1927
Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth. What remains in the bum or studiedly jocular desperation of one who is aware of the obscene Presence in the corner of the room and knows that the door is locked, that there aren’t any windows.
Source: Ape and Essence - 1948
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