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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: The Doors of Perception - 1954

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Aldous Huxley

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God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: Brave New World - Chapter 17 - 1932

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

Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

— Aldous Huxley

Source: Eyeless in Gaza - 1936

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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful. - Aldous Huxley
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