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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned b...more

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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

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In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies...more

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He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical joke. Yes, chosen. For it h...more

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The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates o...more

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For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not-self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the things around me. T...more

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but ...more

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To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at ...more

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For until this morning I had known contemplation only in its humbler, its more ordinary forms - as discursive thinking; as a rapt absorption in poetry...more

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Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and...more

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To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal o...more