Albert Hofmann Quotes

#1. I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

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#2. LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

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#3. I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.

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#4. When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

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#5. They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

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#6. After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.

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#7. LSD wanted to tell me something ... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

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#8. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors,

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#9. God only speaks to those who understand the language

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#10. Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

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#11. It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.

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#12. What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.

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#13. Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

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#14. I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.

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#15. I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that's all.

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#16. Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind.

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#17. It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

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#18. Wrong and inappropriate use has caused LSD to become my problem child,

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#19. Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

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