- “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
- “That men do not learn form the lessons of history is the most important of all lessons of history.”
- “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him”
- “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
- “An intellectual is a person who has found something more interesting than sex..”
- “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”
- “People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. …after years and years of research and experimentation I have to say –just be a little kinder.”
- “The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
- “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
- “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
- “Love without knowledge is largely impotent and knowledge without love is frequently inhuman.”
- “We were kicking around band names, Jim said, “Hey, how about The Doors? … he got the idea from the Huxley book, Doors of Perception.”
- “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
