Knox Morris

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Knox Morris.


The Torture Garden
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (80%)
"It seems to this book is often abridged to the section titled “The Garden.” My version includes a dialogue on whether the desire to murder is the driving force behind mankind and background on the protagonist, and runs 250 pages." Feb 24, 2026 11:50AM

 
Swann's Way
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 20 of 656)
Feb 24, 2026 11:48AM

 
Loading...
Luis Buñuel
“Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.”
Luis Buñuel

David  Lynch
“We all want expanded consciousness and bliss. It's a natural, human desire. And a lot of people look for it in drugs. But the problem is that the body, the physiology, takes a hard hit on drugs. Drugs injure the nervous system, so they just make it harder to get those experiences on your own.
I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s, so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't you take those drugs." I was pretty lucky.
Besides, far more profound experiences are available naturally. When your consciousness stars expanding, those experiences are there. All those things can be seen. It's just a matter of expanding that ball of consciousness. And the ball of consciousness can expand to be infinite and unbounded. It's totality. You can have totality. So all those experiences are there for you, without the side effects of drugs.”
David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
tags: drugs

Aldous Huxley
“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 the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he or she has been born -- the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to he accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it be-devils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.”
Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice. And when
“You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.
And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,
your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgment
and shining in its endless beauty.”
Paul Ferrini

John Maynard Keynes
“When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?”
John Maynard Keynes

2316 Linguistics — 161 members — last activity Jan 10, 2015 07:39PM
Would you like to talk about language? Do you like reading about language? Then this is your group :)
year in books
Noah
11 books | 4 friends

Joseph ...
2,000 books | 255 friends

Gage Ar...
22 books | 3 friends

Esthër
599 books | 180 friends

Stone F...
218 books | 8 friends

Ayden Hall
45 books | 2 friends

Edward ...
144 books | 3 friends

Griffin...
86 books | 11 friends

More friends…

Favorite Genres



Polls voted on by Knox Morris

Lists liked by Knox Morris