## Metadata - Author: [[Leo Damrosch]] - Full Title: Eternity's Sunrise - Category: #books ## Highlights - Blake greatly resented the “pretended philosophy which teaches that execution is the power of one, and invention of another.” ([Location 222](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B015Y1YSXO&location=222)) - If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”31 Long afterward, this passage would take on a new life in the mid-twentieth-century counterculture. Describing experiences with mescaline, Aldous Huxley entitled his book The Doors of Perception, and from either Huxley or Blake Jim Morrison got the name of the Doors. ([Location 381](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B015Y1YSXO&location=381)) - he would have appreciated E. H. Gombrich’s comment, “The Egyptians had largely drawn what they knew to exist, the Greeks what they saw; in the Middle Ages the artist also learned to express in his picture what he felt.” ([Location 393](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B015Y1YSXO&location=393))